The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition

This collection of poems, once thought to be the work of the archaic Greek poet Anacreon, was considered unworthy of attention when revealed to be late Hellenistic and early Roman imitations by anonymous writers. This book, the first full-length treatment of the anacreontic corpus, explores the complex poetics of imitation which inspired anacreontic composition for so many centuries in antiquity. A full translation of the anacreontic collection is included as an appendix and all Greek and Latin is translated.Patricia A. Rosenmeyer is the author of 'The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition', published 1992 under ISBN 9780521410441 and ISBN 0521410444.