Description
The New Posidippus
A Hellenistic Poetry Book
Coordinator: Gutzwiller Kathryn
Language: English
The new posidippus: a hellenistic poetry book (paperback)
Publication date: 04-2008
416 p. · 15.6x23.3 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 04-2008
416 p. · 15.6x23.3 cm · Hardback
The new posidippus a hellenistic poetry book
Publication date: 09-2005
416 p. · 16.4x24.2 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 09-2005
416 p. · 16.4x24.2 cm · Hardback
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The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100 previously unknown epigrams by one of the most prominent poets of the third century BC, but as an artefact it constitutes our earliest example of a Greek poetry book. In addition to a poetic translation of the entire corpus of Posidippus' poetry, this volume contains essays about Posidippus by experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Augustan literature, Ptolemaic history, and Graeco-Roman visual culture.
1: Kathryn Gutzwiller: Introduction, 2: Frank Nisetich: The Poems of Posidippus,. Part 1: Papyrus Rolls. Readers, and Editors, 3: Colin Austin: Back from the Dead with Posidippus, 4: William Johnson: The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader, 5: Nita Krevans: The Editor's Toolbox: Strategies for Selection and Presentation in the Milan Epigram Papyrus, 6: Dirk Obbink: New Old Posidippus and Old New Posidippus: From Occasion to Edition in the `Epigrams',. Part 2: A Book in Sections. 7: Peter Bing: The Politics and Poetics of Geography in the Milan Posidippus, Section One: In Stones, 8: Ann Kuttner: Cabinet Fit for a Queen: The `Lithika' as Posidippus' Gem Museum, 9: David Sider: Posidippus on Weather Signs and the Tradition of Didactic Poetry, 10: Andrew Stewart: Posidippus and the Truth in Sculpture, 11: Alexander Sens: The Art of Poetry and the Poetry of Art: The Unity and Poetics of Posidippus' Statue-Poems,. Part 3: Posidippus in a Ptolemaic Context. 12: Susan Stephens: Battle of the Books, 13: Marco Fantuzzi: `Posidippus' at Court: The Contribution of the `Hippika' of P. Mil. Volg. Part 8: .09 to the Ideology of Ptolemaic Kingship, 14: Dorothy J. Thompson: Posidippus, Poet of the Ptolemies,. Part 4: A Hellenistic Book and its Literary Context. 15: Kathryn Gutzwiller: The Literariness of the Milan Papyrus, or What Difference a Book?, 16: Alessandro Barchiesi: The Search for the Perfect Book: A PS to the New Posidippus
Classicists, scholars and students of ancient literature, ancient history, papyrology, ancient visual culture, and ancient libraries.
Kathryn Gutzwiller is Professor in the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati.
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