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Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram bing-los_CS2.indd i 20-2-2007 10:33:48 Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies ISSN 1872-3357 Also in this series: Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis. ISBN 978 90 04 14795 9 Brill’s Companion to Propertius, edited by Hans-Christian Günther. ISBN 978 90 04 13682 3 Brill’s Companion to Thucydides, edited by Antonios Rengakos and Antonis Tsakmakis. ISBN 978 90 04 13683 0 See also http://www.brill.nl/bccs bing-los_CS2.indd ii 20-2-2007 10:33:48 Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram Down to Philip Edited by Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 bing-los_CS2.indd iii 20-2-2007 10:33:48 Cover illustration: Les Bergers d’Arcadie (Paris, musée du Louvre) by Nicolas Poussin, 1650-5. One shepherd traces with his finger the monument’s inscription, ET IN ARCADIA EGO. As an image of the act of reading an inscription, the painting reprises, centuries later, the Hellenistic poets’ reflection upon their inscribed models in literary epigram. (C) Photo RMN/© René-Gabriel Ojéda. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 1872-3357 ISBN 978 90 04 15218 2 © Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands bing-los_CS2.indd iv 20-2-2007 10:33:48 (cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4) (cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:6)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:10)(cid:7)(cid:11)(cid:6)(cid:11) (cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:14)(cid:9)(cid:6)(cid:14)(cid:3)(cid:11) (Iliad 11.76) BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd v 2/20/2007 4:43:35 PM BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd vi 2/20/2007 4:43:37 PM CONTENTS Preface ......................................................................................... xi List of Contributors .................................................................... xiii Abbreviations .............................................................................. xix 1. Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram ............. 1 Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss PART ONE MODELS AND FORM 2. Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram ............................................................. 29 Joseph W. Day 3. Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources ...... 49 Andrej Petrovic 4. The Mutual In(cid:2) uence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram ............................................................................... 69 Anja Bettenworth 5. From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? .... 95 Ewen Bowie 6. Sylloge Simonidea ..................................................................... 113 David Sider 7. The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections .................. 131 Nita Krevans 8. Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors ....................... 147 Lorenzo Argentieri 9. Meter and Diction: From Re(cid:3) nement to Mannerism ........ 165 Enrico Magnelli PART TWO POETICS 10. The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram ............................................................. 187 Doris Meyer BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd vii 2/20/2007 4:43:37 PM viii contents 11. Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram ............................ 211 Jackie Murray and Jonathan M. Rowland 12. Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram ............................ 233 Graham Zanker 13. Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram ............................................................................... 251 Irmgard Männlein-Robert PART THREE GENRE 14. Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram ............................................................ 275 Annemarie Ambühl 15. Epinician Epigram .............................................................. 295 Adolf Köhnken 16. The Paradox of Amatory Epigram .................................... 313 Kathryn J. Gutzwiller 17. Bucolic Epigram .................................................................. 333 Karl-Heinz Stanzel 18. Satiric Epigram .................................................................... 353 Gideon Nisbet PART FOUR EPIGRAMS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS 19. One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams ................. 373 Alexander Sens 20. Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram ................................................................. 391 Evina Sistakou 21. Epigram and the Heritage of Epic ..................................... 409 Annette Harder 22. Inscribing Lyric ................................................................... 429 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Silvia Barbantani 23. The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax ............................................................................. 459 Ralph Rosen BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd viii 2/20/2007 4:43:37 PM contents ix 24. Epigram and the Theater ................................................... 477 Marco Fantuzzi 25. Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram ................ 497 Dee L. Clayman PART FIVE RECEPTION 26. Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age .................. 521 Alfredo M. Morelli 27. Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram ......... 543 Gideon Nisbet 28. The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram ....................... 565 Kenneth Haynes Bibliography ................................................................................ 585 Indexes Index of Epigrams Discussed ............................................. 623 Index of Ancient Passages Discussed ................................. 631 General Subject Index ........................................................ 638 BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd ix 2/20/2007 4:43:37 PM BRUSS-BING_f1_v-xxi.indd x 2/20/2007 4:43:37 PM
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