Brill's companion to Hellenistic epigram : down to Philip / edited by Peter Bing, Jon Bruss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bing, Peter.

Bruss, Jon Steffen

Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies 1872-3357

Brill's companions in classical studies, 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epigrams, Greek--History and criticism--Congresses.

Epigrams, Greek.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxi, 656 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's Garland, others on Philip's; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with different motives and questions. In this volume, expert scholars offer those less familiar with the genre an introduction to all aspects of Hellenistic epigram-from models and forms inherited from inscriptional epigram to poetology, sub-genera, epigrammatic intertexts, and ancient and modern reception. Even specialists will find here fresh explorations of epigram, along with new directions for scholarship.

Contents:

Part 1 Models and Form

2 Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram / Joseph W. Day 29

3 Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources / Andrej Petrovic 49

4 The Mutual Influence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram / Anja Bettenworth 69

5 From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? / Ewen Bowie 95

6 Sylloge Simonidea / David Sider 113

7 The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections / Nita Krevans 131

8 Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors / Lorenzo Argentieri 147

9 Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism / Enrico Magnelli 165

Part 2 Poetics

10 The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram / Doris Meyer 187

11 Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram / Jackie Murray, Jonathan M. Rowland 211

12 Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram / Graham Zanker 233

13 Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram / Irmgard Mannlein-Robert 251

Part 3 Genre

14 Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram / Annemarie Ambuhl 275

15 Epinician Epigram / Adolf Kohnken 295

16 The Paradox of Amatory Epigram / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller 313

17 Bucolic Epigram / Karl-Heinz Stanzel 333

18 Satiric Epigram / Gideon Nisbet 353

Part 4 Epigrams and Their Intertexts

19 One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams / Alexander Sens 373

20 Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram / Evina Sistakou 391

21 Epigram and the Heritage of Epic / Annette Harder 409

22 Inscribing Lyric / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Silvia Barbantani 429

23 The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax / Ralph Rosen 459

24 Epigram and the Theater / Marco Fantuzzi 477

25 Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram / Dee L. Clayman 497

Part 5 Reception

26 Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age / Alfredo M. Morelli 521

27 Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram / Gideon Nisbet 543

28 The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram / Kenneth Haynes 565.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [585]-622) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789004152182

9004152180

OCLC:

80749567