Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)
Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)
edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou and Manuel Baumbach contributions by Dirk Obbink, Nassos Papalexandrou, David Schur, Alexander Sens, Gareth Williams, Martyn Smith, Susan Stephens, Richard F. Thomas, Kai Trampedach, Peter Bing, Beate Dignas, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Gail Hoffman and Richard L. Hunter
Harvard University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-674-01105-2 Library of Congress Classification PA4399.P15L33 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 888.0102
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic. These texts are considered as individual poems and as collective artifact, an early poetry book. The volume will be of interest to readers of Greek and Latin epigram, students of the Hellenistic period, and all readers interested in the aesthetics of poetry collection and the evolution of the poetry book in antiquity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Preface (G. Nagy)
Introduction (B. Acosta-Hughes, M. Baumbach, E. Kosmetatou)
1. The Manuscript (D. Obbink and S. Stephens)
2. Posidippus on Papyri Old and New (D. Obbink)
3. Posidippus Old and New (D. Sider)
4. Alexandrian Posidippus: On Rereading the GP Epigrams in Light of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 (B. Acosta-Hughes)
5. Homeric Echoes in Posidippus (G. Nagy)
6. Doricisms in the New and Old Posidippus (A. Sens)
7. A New Hellenistic Poetry Book: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 (K. Gutzwiller)
8. Notes on the Lithika of Posidippus (R. Hunter)
9. Elusive Stones: Reading Posidippus' Lithika through Technical Writing on Stones (M.
Smith)
10. A Garland of Stones: Hellenistic Lithika as Reflections on Poetic Transformations (D.
Schur)
11. "Winged Words": Poetry and Divination in Posidippus' Oionoskopika (M. Baumbach
and K. Trampedach)
12. For You, Arsinoe... (S. Stephens)
13. Posidippus and the Mysteries. Epitymbia Read by the Ancient Historian (Grave
Inscriptions - Grave Epigrams) (B. Dignas)
14. Vision and Visibility: Art Historical Theory Paints a Portrait of New Leadership in
Posidippus' Andriantopoiika (E. Kosmetatou)
15. The Structure of the Hippika in P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 (M. Fantuzzi)
16. Constructing Legitimacy: The Ptolemaic Familiengruppe as a Means for Self-
Definition in Posidippus' Hippika (E. Kosmetatou)
17. Reading as Seeing: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 and Greek Art (N. Papalexandrou)
18. "Drownded in the Tide": The Nauagika and Some "Problems" in Augustan Poetry (R. Thomas)
19. Posidippus' Iamatika (P. Bing)
20. 'Tropoi' (Posidippus AB 102-103) (D. Obbink)
Afterword: An Archeologist's Perspective on the Milan Papyrus (G. Hoffman)
Contributors
Concordance
Bibliography
Indices (2)
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