Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies)

Contents\n......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 20
1. Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram (Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss)......Page 24
PART ONE MODELS AND FORM......Page 50
2. Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram (Joseph W. Day)......Page 52
3. Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources (Andrej Petrovic)......Page 72
4. The Mutual Influence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram (Anja Bettenworth)......Page 92
5. From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? (Ewen Bowie)......Page 118
6. Sylloge Simonidea (David Sider)......Page 136
7. The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections (Nita Krevans)......Page 154
8. Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors (Lorenzo Argentieri)......Page 170
9. Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism (Enrico Magnelli)......Page 188
PART TWO POETICS......Page 208
10. The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram (Doris Meyer)......Page 210
11. Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram (Jackie Murray and Jonathan M. Rowland)......Page 234
12. Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram (Graham Zanker)......Page 256
13. Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram (Irmgard Männlein-Robert)......Page 274
PART THREE GENRE......Page 296
14. Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram (Annemarie Ambühl)......Page 298
15. Epinician Epigram (Adolf Köhnken)......Page 318
16. The Paradox of Amatory Epigram (Kathryn J. Gutzwiller)......Page 336
17. Bucolic Epigram (Karl-Heinz Stanzel)......Page 356
18. Satiric Epigram (Gideon Nisbet)......Page 376
PART FOUR EPIGRAMS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS......Page 394
19. One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams (Alexander Sens)......Page 396
20. Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram (Evina Sistakou)......Page 414
21. Epigram and the Heritage of Epic (Annette Harder)......Page 432
22. Inscribing Lyric (Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Silvia Barbantani)......Page 452
23. The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax (Ralph Rosen)......Page 482
24. Epigram and the Theater (Marco Fantuzzi)......Page 500
25. Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram (Dee L. Clayman)......Page 520
PART FIVE RECEPTION......Page 542
26. Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age (Alfredo M. Morelli)......Page 544
27. Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram (Gideon Nisbet)......Page 566
28. The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram (Kenneth Haynes)......Page 588
Bibliography......Page 608
Index of Epigrams Discussed......Page 646
Index of Ancient Passages Discussed......Page 654
General Subject Index......Page 661