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)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss -- Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram / Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss -- Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram / Joseph W. Day -- Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources / Andrej Petrovic -- The Mutual Influence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram / Anja Bettenworth -- From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? / Ewen Bowie -- Sylloge Simonidea / David Sider -- The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections / Nita Krevans -- Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors / Lorenzo Argentieri -- Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism / Enrico Magnelli -- The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram / Doris Meyer -- Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram / Jackie Murray and Jonathan M. Rowland -- Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram / Graham Zanker -- Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram / Irmgard Männlein-Robert -- Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram / Annemarie Ambühl -- Epinician Epigram / Adolf Köhnken -- The Paradox of Amatory Epigram / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller -- Bucolic Epigram / Karl-Heinz Stanzel -- Satiric Epigram / Gideon Nisbet -- One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams / Alexander Sens -- Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram / Evina Sistakou -- Epigram and the Heritage of Epic / Annette Harder -- Inscribing Lyric / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Silvia Barbantani -- The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax / Ralph Rosen -- Epigram and the Theater / Marco Fantuzzi -- Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram / Dee L. Clayman -- Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age / Alfredo M. Morelli -- Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram / Gideon Nisbet -- The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram / Kenneth Haynes -- Bibliography / Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss -- Indexes / Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss.