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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information CALLIMACHUS IN CONTEXT Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), representedbyahandfulofintertextswitharecurringsetofimages– slenderMuse,instructingdivinity,smallvoice,purewaters;theGreek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism withinhispoetry,anencomiastofthePtolemies,apoetofthebook whosenarrativesareoftenunderstoodasmetapoetic.Thisstudyaims tosituatetheseCallimachuseswithinaseriesofinterlockinghistorical and intellectual contexts in order better to understand how they arose.Inthisnarrativeofhispoeticsandpoeticreceptionfourmain sourcesofcreativeopportunismareidentified:Callimachus’reactions to philosophers and literary critics as arbiters of poetic authority, the potential of the text as a venue for performance, awareness of Alexandria as a new place, and, finally, his attraction for Roman poets. benjamin acosta-hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at TheOhioStateUniversity.HeistheauthorofPolyeideia:TheIambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (2002), of Arion’s Lyre:ArchaicLyricintoHellenisticPoetry(2010),andco-editor,with ManuelBaumbachandElizabethKosmetatou,ofLaboredInPapyrus Leaves:PerspectivesonanEpigramCollectionAttributedtoPosidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309). He is also co-editor, with Luigi Lehnus and SusanA.Stephens,ofBrill’sCompaniontoCallimachus(2011). susan a. stephensisSaraHartKimballProfessorintheHuman- ities,andProfessorofClassicsatStanfordUniversity.Sheisauthorof SeeingDouble:InterculturalPoeticsinPtolemaicAlexandria(2003),a studythathastransformedscholarlythinkingaboutEgyptaspresent in Hellenistic poetry. Trained as a papyrologist, she co-edited, with the late Jack Winkler, Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments (1995). She is the author of numerous articles on Hellenistic poetry, and is co-editor,withBenjaminAcosta-HughesandLuigiLehnus,ofBrill’s CompaniontoCallimachus(2011).Sheisalsoco-editor,withPhiroze Vasunia,ofthe2010collectionClassicsandNationalCultures. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information CALLIMACHUS IN CONTEXT From Plato to the Augustan Poets BENJAMIN ACOSTA-HUGHES AND SUSAN A. STEPHENS © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107008571 (cid:2)c BenjaminAcosta-HughesandSusanStephens2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Acosta-Hughes,Benjamin,1960– Callimachusincontext:fromPlatototheAugustanpoets/BenjaminAcosta-Hughes, SusanA.Stephens. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-00857-1 1.Callimachus–Criticismandinterpretation. 2.Callimachus–Appreciation–Rome. 3.Aesthetics,Ancient. 4.Alexandria(Egypt)–Intellectuallife. I.Stephens,SusanA. II.Title. pa3945.z5a35 2011 811(cid:3).01–dc23 2011019856 isbn978-1-107-00857-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information Contents Listofmaps pagevii Acknowledgments viii Listofabbreviations x Maps xii Introduction 1 1. Literaryquarrels 23 23 Suicidebythebook 31 PlatointheAetiaPrologue 47 “MixingIons” 57 Hipponaxandmimeticplay 68 Thepowerofthepoet 78 “Commonthings” 80 Thecrowd 2. Performingthetext 84 84 Thesoundsofreading 90 Dramaticperformance 102 Lyric 105 Thepaean 108 “Lyrics”forAlexandria 112 Chorusesandchoraldancing 116 Stichicmeters 130 Textualandintertextualsymposia 133 Inthepublicsphere 140 Intheprivatesphere 3. Changingplaces 148 149 De-centeringGreece 155 Cyrene 160 TheCyrenaica 163 Alexandria v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information vi Contents 168 TheArgiveancestors 170 The“causes”ofAlexandria 196 AtticaviewedfromAlexandria 202 Thenewcenter 4. Inmyendismybeginning 204 207 Early“translation” 212 Thedoctuspoeta 233 Writingforroyals 244 CallimachusinPropertius 255 TheRomanCallimachus 257 OvidandCallimachus Conclusions 270 Appendix:TheAetia 275 Bibliography 292 Indexlocorum 307 Subjectindex 317 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information Maps AllmapspreparedbyAlDuncan. 1. HellenisticCyrenewithsitesofimportancefor Callimachus’poetry(followingBonacasaandEnsoli),with aninsertshowingdetailofthesanctuaryofApollo. pagexii 2. EarlyAlexandria. xiii 3. TheEasternMediterranean,showingregionscontrolledby theearlyPtolemiesandlocationsofimportancein Callimachus’Aetia. xiv 4. TheAegeanSea,detailoflargermapwithlocationsof importanceinCallimachus’Aetia. xvi vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information Acknowledgments This study is the result of an ongoing conversation about the poet Calli- machus that began in the late 1990s. The experience of co-authoring an articleontheAetiaPrologueledustoconsiderwritingabooktogetheras anintellectualandpersonalpleasure,whilethequestionsraisedbystudents in our respective seminars over the years helped us to frame our research and writing as best we could to answer the most recurrent and pressing of these. Why do there appear to be so many Platonic tangents in Cal- limachus? Why, in a poet considered the model of the “bookish” author, aretheresomanyindicationsofpoeticperformance?Whatistherapport betweenthePtolemiesandtheirpoliticalinterestsandaremarkablydiffuse bodyofworkofonecourtpoet?WhyisCallimachusanongoingfeatureof Romanpoeticculture,andinsuchaparticularway?Eachofthesequestions hasresultedinoneofthechaptersofthepresentstudy. DuringtheperiodofourcollaborationthescholarlydiscourseonHel- lenistic poetry has begun to change. The publication of the epigram roll of Posidippus of Pella surprised with its blend of aesthetics and and pol- itics; work on Philodemus continues to enable a better understanding of the relationship of Hellenistic critical theories to poetic practice; and the remarkable underwater archaeological discoveries of the Empereur and Goddio teams, as well as recent recoveries in the city of Alexandria itself, have cast new light on the Greco-Egyptian milieu of the Ptolemies. The publication of new commentaries on the Aetia and of recent editions of Callimachus’collectedpoetrybyMarkusAsper(inGerman)andGiambat- tista D’Alessio (in Italian) have greatly increased our ability to appreciate thisveryfragmentaryauthor. Thesedevelopmentshaveactedasstimuliforourideasandhaveenriched ourunderstanding,andweofferCallimachusinContexttoalargercritical audience as part of this evolving discourse. Throughout this has been a workofcollaborationratherthanacombinationofseparatelyconstructed segments, and we are equally responsible for the book’s strong, and, if so viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information Acknowledgments ix judged, weak points. Although we shall continue writing together on a differentproject,nowitistimeforustoclosethischapter. It is with pleasure and gratitude that we acknowledge here the help and support of friends and colleagues who made the process of writing thisbooksorewarding.Anumberofscholarshaveprovideduswiththeir work in advance of publication: we wish to thank Diskin Clay, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Stephanie Winder, Patrick Lake, ´ Kathryn Morgan, Ivana Petrovic, Evelyne Prioux, and Stephen White. Special thanks are due to Annette Harder, to whom we are more grateful thanwecansayforallowingusaccesstohercommentaryontheAetiain advance of its publication. Without it our book would be the poorer. As editors of the forthcoming Brill’s Companion to Callimachus we have also taken full advantage of the insights of our contributors; they too deserve our thanks. Some parts of this study had a first hearing at the Universita` ´ di Roma Tre and at the Ecole normale supe´rieure in Lyon: we wish to take this opportunity to thank our close colleagues Adele-Teresa Cozzoli andChristopheCussetfortheirkindhospitality.Wewereprivilegedtobe invitedtoorganizeanAPAseminarin2007onPlatoandHellenisticpoetry andwishtoacknowledgeourgratitudetotheProgramCommitteefortheir advice and encouragement. The stimulating comments of participants in thesevenueshavedonemuchtoshapethisstudy. Anumberofothershavegivenusscholarlyadvice,readportionsofour manuscript,andsavedusfrommanyerrors,ofomissionandcommission. We wish to thank, in particular, Alessandro Barchiesi, Chris Bobonich, KeyneCheshire,TomHawkins,NitaKrevans,JohnMiller,DamienNelis, NatashaPeponi,JayReed,andAlexSens.Wehaveprofitedimmenselyfrom the assessments of the two anonymous readers for Cambridge University Press,fortheirengagementwithourargumentsandfortheirsuggestionsof furtherbibliography.Twograduatestudentsdeservespecialacknowledge- ment,AlDuncan(Stanford),whopreparedthemaps,andAaronPalmore (OhioState),whoreadtheentiremanuscriptforusbeforefinalsubmission. Our partners, Jesu´s and Mark, have been strongly supportive throughout (andwillbegratefulfortheproject’sconclusion).Butaboveallwewishto acknowledgethegraduatestudentswhomwehavetaughtthroughoutthe years:withouttheirengagement,skepticism,andinsightsasastimulus,this book would never have taken the shape that it has. To them we dedicate thisstudy,withthanksandaffection. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00857-1 - Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens Frontmatter More information Abbreviations ThetextsofCallimachusarefromPfeiffer(Pf.)unlessotherwiseindicated. Some papyrological sigla (half brackets, some sublinear dots) are omitted fromGreektexts. AP PalatineAnthology CA J.U.Powell,ed.CollectaneaAlexandrina(Oxford,1925) DK H.DielsandW.Kranz,eds.DieFragmentederVorsokratiker (6thedn.Berlin,1951–2) FGE D.L.Page,ed.FurtherGreekEpigrams(Cambridge,1981) FGrH F.Jacoby,ed.DieFragmentedergriechischenHistoriker(Berlin andLeiden,1923–1958) GLP D.L.Page,ed.GreekLiteraryPapyriI(Cambridge,Mass., 1981) GP A.S.F.GowandD.L.Page,eds.TheGreekAnthology. HellenisticEpigrams(Cambridge,1965) Hdr. A.Harder,ed.Callimachus:Aetia.Introduction,Text, Translation,andCommentary(Oxford,2011) IG InscriptionesGraecae(Berlin,1873–) M. G.Massimilla,ed.AITIA.Libriprimoesecondo,Libroterzoe quarto(PisaandRome,1996–2010) OGIS W.Dittenberger,ed.OrientisGraeciInscriptionesSelectae (Leipzig,1903–5) Pf. R.Pfeiffer,ed.Callimachus,2vols.(Oxford,1949–1953) PCG R.KasselandC.Austin,eds.PoetaeComiciGraeci (Berlin-NewYork,1983–) PMG D.L.Page,ed.PoetaeMeliciGraeci(Oxford,1962) SEG SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum(Leiden,1923–) SH H.Lloyd-JonesandP.J.Parsons,eds.Supplementum Hellenisticum(BerlinandNewYork,1983) x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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