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Encyclopedia Britannica



HERMESIANAX

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 371 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERMESIANAX , of
Colophon
 , elegiac poet of the Alexandrian
school, flourished about 330 B.C. His
chief
 
work
  was a poem in three books, dedicated to his mistress Leontion. Of this poem a fragment of about one hundred lines has been preserved by Athenaeus (xiii. 597). Plaintive in
tone
 , it enumerates instances, mythological and historical, of the irresistible power of love. Hermesianax, whose style is characterized by alternate force and tenderness, was exceedingly popular in his own times, and was highly esteemed even in the Augustan period.
Many
separate
  editions have been published of the fragment, the text of which is in a very unsatisfactory
condition
 : by F. W. Schneidewin (1838), J.
Bailey
  (1839, with notes, glossary, and Latin and
English
  versions), and others; R. Schulze 's Quaestiones Hermesianacteae (1858), contains an account of the
life
  and writings of the poet and a
section
  on the identity of Leontion.


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