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

• Superior document: Brill's companions in classical studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bing, Peter.; Bruss, Jon Steffen.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (656 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram /; Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram /; Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources /; The Mutual Influence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram /; From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? /; Sylloge Simonidea /; The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections /; Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors /; Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism /; The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram /; Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram /; Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram /; Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram /; Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram /; Epinician Epigram /; The Paradox of Amatory Epigram /; Bucolic Epigram /; Satiric Epigram /; One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams /; Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram /; Epigram and the Heritage of Epic /; Inscribing Lyric /; The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax /; Epigram and the Theater /; Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram /; Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age /; Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram /; The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-622) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9786611926106; 1281926108; 9789047419402; 9047419405; 9789004152182; 9004152180
• ISSN: 1872-3357
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Peter Bing, Jon Bruss.

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.