This volume offers a text and commentary of all six of Callimachus' hymns, as well as interpretive essays on each hymn that integrate what has been the dominant paradigm¿intertextuality¿into a broader focus on Callimachus' context.

• Abbreviations


• Maps


• Introduction


• 1. Hymn to Zeus


• 2. Hymn to Apollo


• 3. Hymn to Artemis


• 4. Hymn to Delos


• 5. Hymn to Athena or The Bath of Pallas


• 6. Hymn to Demeter


• Works Cited


• Index Locorum


• General Index

Susan A. Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University.