Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1626678 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

About the Author
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan.

Elizabeth Kosmetatou is a Fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

Manuel Baumbach is Wissenschaftlicher Assistant of Professor Dr. G. W. Most of the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg.

Beate Dignas is Tutor in Ancient History, Somerville College, Oxford University.

Dirk Obbink is University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Christ Church, Oxford.

David Schur is Lecturer on Literature, Harvard University.

Kai Trampedach is Professor of Ancient History at Heidelberg University.