The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

This collection of studies of Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry encompasses Benjamin Acosta-Hughes' 30+ year scholarly career as reader and critic of these texts. The collection highlights artistic reflection of earlier poetic models in the creative work of the poets of 3 rd cent. BCE Alexandria, an era that saw one of the first concentrated efforts to preserve, document and celebrate earlier Homeric and Classical Greece as a cultural heritage.