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A COMPANION TO HELLENISTIC LITERATURE BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-fiveandfortyconciseessayswrittenbyindividualscholarswithintheirareaofspecialization.The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars,students,andgeneralreaders. 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Clauss and Martine Cuypers A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Thiseditionfirstpublished2010 #2010BlackwellPublishingLtd BlackwellPublishingwasacquiredbyJohnWiley&SonsinFebruary2007.Blackwell’spublishing programhasbeenmergedwithWiley’sglobalScientific,Technical,andMedicalbusinesstoform Wiley-Blackwell. RegisteredOffice JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ, UnitedKingdom EditorialOffices 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148-5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,Oxford,OX42DQ,UK TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ,UK Fordetailsofourglobaleditorialoffices,forcustomerservices,andforinformationabouthowto applyforpermissiontoreusethecopyrightmaterialinthisbookpleaseseeourwebsiteat www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. TherightofJamesJ.ClaussandMartineCuyperstobeidentifiedastheauthoroftheeditorialmaterialin thisworkhasbeenassertedinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData AcompaniontoHellenisticliterature/editedbyJamesJ.ClaussandMartineCuypers. p.cm.–(Blackwellcompanionstotheancientworld) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4051-3679-2(hardcover:alk.paper)1.Greekliterature,Hellenistic–Historyandcriticism. I.Clauss,JamesJoseph.II.Cuypers,Martine. PA3081.C632010 880.09–dc22 2009025321 AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Setin10/12.5ptGalliard bySPiPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinSingapore I 2010 Contents List of Maps viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations xvii 1 Introduction 1 James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers PART I Contexts 15 2 From Alexander to Augustus 17 Andrew Erskine 3 Literatureand the Kings 30 RolfStrootman 4 Ptolemaic Alexandria 46 Susan Stephens 5 Education 62 Jessica Wissmann PART II Poetry 79 6 The PrefiguredMuse:Rethinking a FewAssumptions on Hellenistic Poetics 81 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 7 Callimachus’ Aetia 92 AnnetteHarder vi Contents 8 Hellenistic Elegy: Out from Under the Shadow of Callimachus 106 JackieMurray 9 Epigram 117 Jon S. Bruss 10 Apollonius’ Argonautica 136 Adolf K¨ohnken 11 Narrative HexameterPoetry 151 Annemarie Amb¨uhl 12 Hymnsand Encomia 166 AnthonyW.Bulloch 13 Sung Poetry: The Case of Inscribed Paeans 181 MarcoFantuzzi 14 Aratus 197 KatharinaVolk 15 Nicander 211 Enrico Magnelli 16 The Bucolic Fiction of Theocritus 224 Mark Payne 17 Idyll 6and the Development of Bucolicafter Theocritus 238 J.D. Reed 18 Iambosand Parody 251 Ruth Scodel 19 Herodas and the Mime 267 Elena Esposito 20 Menander’s Comedy 282 Susan Lape 21 Hellenistic Tragedyand Lycophron’s Alexandra 297 Alexander Sens PART III Prose 315 22 Historiography,Rhetoric, andScience: Rethinking a Few AssumptionsonHellenistic Prose 317 Martine Cuypers 23 LiteraryCriticism 337 Kathryn J.Gutzwiller 24 Philosophyafter Aristotle 366 StephenA. White Contents vii 25 From Polybius to Dionysius: TheDecline and Fall of Hellenistic Historiography 384 Alain M. Gowing 26 Prose Fiction 395 TimWhitmarsh PART IV Neighbors 413 27 Jewish Literature 415 Erich S. Gruen 28 EgyptianLiterature 429 Jacco Dielemanand Ian S. Moyer 29 Literature inWestern Asia 448 Silke Knippschild 30 From the Head of Zeus: The Beginnings of RomanLiterature 463 James J.Clauss Bibliography 479 Index 535 Maps 2.1. The Hellenistic Kingdoms (c. 240 BCE) 18 4.1. AncientAlexandria 50 Notes on Contributors BenjaminAcosta-HughesisProfessorof gram and Hellenistic poetry, and he is GreekandLatinattheOhioStateUniver- the co-editor of Brill’s Companion to sity.HisprincipalinterestsareHellenistic Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip poetryandArchaiclyric.Heistheauthor (2007). of Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus Anthony W. Bulloch is Professor of and the Archaic Iambic Tradition Classics at the University of California, (2002), and of Arion’s Lyre: Archaic Berkeley.HeistheauthorofCallimachus: LyricintoHellenisticPoetry(2010).With The Fifth Hymn (1985), the section on SusanStephensheiscurrentlyco-author- HellenisticpoetryinTheCambridgeHis- ingabookonCallimachus. toryofClassicalLiterature,vol.1(1985), Annemarie Ambu¨hl has taught at the and co-editor of Images and Ideologies: University of Basel and the University Self-definition in the Hellenistic World of Groningen. Her publications include (1993).Heisalsojointeditoroftheon- Kinder und junge Helden: Innovative goingUniversityofCaliforniaPressseries AspektedesUmgangsmitderliterarischen HellenisticCultureandSociety. Tradition bei Kallimachos (2005) and articles on Hellenistic epigram. She is JamesJ.ClaussisProfessorofClassicsat currently working as a post-doctoral re- the University of Washington, Seattle. searcher at Groningen on the reception He is the author of The Best of the Argo- ofAttictragedyandHellenisticpoetryin nauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero Lucan’s Bellum civile. in Book 1 of Apollonius’ Argonautica (1993), the co-editor of Medea: Essays Jon S. Bruss has taught at Bethany onMedeainMyth,Literature,Philosophy, Lutheran College, St. Olaf College, the andArt(1997),andtheco-translatorof UniversityoftheSouth,andtheUniver- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological sity of Kansas. He is the author of Hid- Guide by Filippo Coarelli(2007). den Presences: Monuments, Gravesites, and Corpses in Greek Funerary Epigram MartineCuypersisLecturerinGreekat (2005) as well as various articles on epi- Trinity College Dublin. She is preparing x Notes on Contributors a commentary on Apollonius’ Argonau- is close to completinga commentededi- ticaandtheco-editorofBeginningfrom tion of the Rhesus ascribed to Euripides. Apollo: Studies in Apollonius and the His next book project is a commentary Argonautic Tradition (2005). She also on Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De com- maintains the online Hellenistic Biblio- positione verborum. graphy. Alain M. Gowing is Professor of Clas- Jacco Dieleman is Assistant Professor of sics at the University of Washington, Egyptology at the University of Califor- Seattle. His chief interests lie in the area nia, Los Angeles. He is the author of of Roman historiography and literature, Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London- especially of the Imperial period. His Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Trans- publications include The Triumviral lation in Egyptian Ritual (2005), and Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio co-editor of the UCLA Encyclopedia of (1992), and Empire and Memory: The Egyptology. Representation of the Roman Republic in ImperialCulture(2005).Heiscurrently Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient working on a book tentatively titled History at the University of Edinburgh. ‘‘Genius urbis: The City of Rome in A specialist in Hellenistic history, he is LatinHistoriography.’’ the author of Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Power (2001) and The Hellenistic Stoa: Professor of History and Classics Emeri- Political Thought and Action (1990). tus at the University of California, Ber- He is also the editor of A Companion to keley. His contributions in Hellenistic theHellenisticWorld(2003)andACom- andJewishstudiesincludeTheHellenistic panion toAncient History (2009). World and the Coming of Rome (1984), Heritage and Hellenism (1998), Dia- ElenaEspositoisLecturerattheUniver- spora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans sityofFlorence,Istitutopapirologico‘‘G. (2002), Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Vitelli,’’andTutorinGreekLiteratureat Appropriations in Antiquity (ed. 2005), the University of Bologna. Her main andsurveyarticlesintheBlackwellCom- interests are Hellenistic poetry and panion to the Hellenistic World (2003), Greek lexicography. She has published Il theCambridgeCompaniontotheHellen- Fragmentum Grenfellianum (P.Dryton istic World (2006), and the Oxford 50)(2005)andmanyarticlesonHerodas Handbook of Biblical Studies (2006). He and the mime. Her current project is a is currently completing a book tenta- commented edition of Greek lexica pre- tively titled ‘‘Confronting the ‘Other’: served on papyri for the series Commen- Greek, Roman, and Jewish Impressions tariaetLexicaGraecainPapyrisReperta. of the Alien.’’ MarcoFantuzziteachesGreekliterature at Columbia University, New York, and Kathryn J. Gutzwiller is Professor of at the University of Macerata. He has Classics at the University of Cincinnati. published widely on Hellenistic poetry She has published widely in Hellenistic and Athenian tragedy, and is the author literature,theinteractionofartandtext, of Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium and literary criticism. Recent books are (1985),RicerchesuApollonioRodio:dia- Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in cronie della dizione epica (1988), and, Context (1998), A Guide to Hellenistic with Richard Hunter, Tradition and In- Literature(2007),andaneditedvolume novationinHellenisticPoetry(2004).He entitledTheNewPosidippus:AHellenistic
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