caa a22 4500 388059591 CHVBK 20180307125116.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500002133 doi S0068673500002133 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500002133 Hunter Richard Pembroke College, Cambridge (B)ionic man: Callimachus' iambic programme [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Hunter] A concern with the methods and style of praise and blame recurs, unsurprisingly, throughout Callimachus' Iambi. The iambos is the aggressive mode par excellence, and Callimachus is the most generically-conscious of poets; whether he is writing hymns, aetiological elegy or funerary epigram he is always overtly engaged with the history and development of the literary form in which he operates. The nature of iambic poetry is, however, the explicit subject of two poems in particular, Iambus 1 and Iambus 13, which thus have a special claim to be considered ‘programmatic'. The thirteenth Iambus returns to the choliambic metre of the first four poems, the metre most associated with Hipponax, who appears himself in the first Iambus as the authorising ‘voice' for these poems, and is apparently spoken in the voice of the poet who to some extent takes up again the themes of Iambus 1 (and indeed of Aitia fr.1); thus the temptation to see a ‘closed' poetry book, framed by these two poems, is very strong. Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1998 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 41-52 0068-6735 43<41 1998 43 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002133 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002133 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hunter Richard Pembroke College, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 41-52 0068-6735 43<41 1998 43 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge