Poems without poets : approaches to anonymous ancient poetry / edited by Boris Kayachef.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kayachev, Boris, editor.

Series:

Supplementary volume (Cambridge Philological Society) ; no. 43.

Cambridge classical journal, proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, supplementary ; volume 43

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Anonymous writings, Latin--History and criticism.

Anonymous writings, Latin.

Anonymous writings, Greek--History and criticism.

Anonymous writings, Greek.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 232 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2021]

Language Note:

Chiefly in English, with some passages in Greek or Latin with English translation.

Summary:

The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the centre, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context. 0The essays collected in this volume attempt, each in its own way, to disentangle the bundles of historically accreted uncertainties and misconceptions that affect individual anonymous texts, including pseudepigrapha ascribed to Homer, Manetho, Virgil and Tibullus, literary and inscribed epigrams, and unattributed fragments. 0Poems without Poets will be of interest to students and scholars working on any anonymous ancient texts, but also to readers seeking an introduction to classical poetry beyond the limits of the established canon.

Contents:

Introduction

Boris Kayachev. 1. The evolving arrangement of the Homeric Hymns

Alexander E. W. Hall. 2. Stars of a lesser magnitude: some glimmerings from the corpus of astrological poetry ascribed to Manetho

Jane Lightfoot. 3. Authorial intent and the structure of book 3 of the Corpus Tibullianum

Robert Maltby. 4. Elegiacs on Octavius (and) Musa: exploring Catalepton 4 and 11

T. E. Franklinos. 5. Collections and editions: Metrodorus in the Greek Anthology

Michael A. Tueller. 6. Fragments of {u2018}anonymous{u2019} Latin verse in Cicero

Hannah Čulík-Baird. 7. Editing anonymous ancient Greek tragedy

P. J. Finglass. 8. The Helen episode in Aeneid 2: between authorial poetry and anonymity

Mikhail V. Shumilin. 9. The author of [Tibullus] 3.19 and 3.20: anonymous or Tibullus?

S. J. Heyworth. 10. {u2018}Have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?{u2019}: the Batrachomyomachia and its absent author

Matthew Hosty. 11. Conjectural emendation in the Appendix Vergiliana: the case of the Moretum

Boris Kayachev. 12. The poetics of Greek inscriptions

Richard Hunter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781913701406

1913701409

OCLC:

1241244640