Richard Hunter and Marco Fantuzzi, highly trained philologists and renowned critics, manage to succinctly summarize the bibliographic history of the issues at hand in the sections of this book, demonstrate the current perspective of the research field, and suggest possible starting points for renewed and refreshing visits to the overall corpus of Hellenistic metrical production with mature mastery. It is not an exaggeration to say that the history of Hellenistic poetry they offer us is the "last word in fashion" on this now busy and much-discussed grammatical material. Everyone - undergraduate and graduate students of classical philology, researchers with specialized interests, as well as the wider philological and philology community - will find reasons to feel grateful to the authors of this book.