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TALKING BOOKS This page intentionally left blank Talking Books Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry G. O. HUTCHINSON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto WithoYcesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork (cid:1)G.O.Hutchinson2008 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2008 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Hutchinson,G.O. Talkingbooks:readingsinHellenisticandRomanbooksofpoetry/G.O.Hutchinson. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. ISBN–13: 978–0–19–927941–8 1. GreekPoetry—Historyandcriticism. 2. Latinpoetry—Historyandcriticism. I. Title. PA3092.H88 2008 881’.0109—dc22 2008004126 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–927941–8 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 In memoriam F. C. Downing soceri carissimi et M. Downing socrus carissimae This page intentionally left blank Preface This volume collects some recent pieces which concern books of poetry from the third century bc and the ‘long’ first century bc, and adds four new chapters. Of these the first is a relatively lengthy creationofcontext,bywayofprologue,thelast,bywayofepilogue, a relatively brief attempt to assemble and advance some of the argument. An appendix has been affixed to chapter 9; the first part of that piece has been expanded. 40 per cent of the book is new. Various changes have been made in the rest; but there has been no systematic attempt to update since the original publications. The wholepackage,thoughdealingonlywithsomeauthorsandperiods, aspirestobroadenanddeepenthestudyofpoetry-books. Theideaofsuchavolumewasnotmine,butProfessorA.Barchi- esi’s; I am deeply grateful to him for his heart-warming encourage- ment.Thearticleshadatanyratebeenwrittenwithconnectedlinesof thoughtinmind.ThoughIhavelongbeeninterestedinpoeticbooks (cf.Hutchinson(1984)),thepapyrusofPosidippusengagedmeinthe subject afresh (cf. ch. 4). If other subjects come into some of the pieces,thatisnotaltogether unfortunate: itispart of thepointthat this subject must be considered like and together with othercritical questions. (‘Books’ in the title is accusative as well as nominative.) The conclusions suggested to particular problems do not matter so much as the general approach. The work is meant to encourage, among other things, the active study of Greek and Latin together, andinvolvementwithactualancientbooks—papyri—inconsidering booksofpoetry. The work has been written during a period encumbered with major administrative jobs in Faculty and College, and enlivened by thefourthbookofPropertius.Thismayserveasanexcuseforsome of its shortcomings. Besides the many debts acknowledged in the text, I have further debts to Dr D. Colomo, Dr R. Daniel, Dr G. F. DeSimone,DrR.Dekker,ProfessorJ.Diggle,ProfessorM.E´tienne, ProfessorF.Ferrari,ProfessorK.J.Gutzwiller,ProfessorP.R.Hardie, Professor S. J. Harrison, Ms J. Himpson, Professor N. Holzberg, viii Preface Professor R. L. Hunter, Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Professor R. T. MacFarlane, Professor D. J. Mastronarde, Dr D. Obbink, Pro- fessor J. I. Porter, Dr F. Reiter, Professor D. Sider, Dr S. E. Snyder, ProfessorV.M.Strocka.IamobligedtotheVerlagDr.RudolfHabelt GmbH,Bonn,forpermissiontorepublishchapters2,4,and9(ori- ginalversions: Zeitschriftfu¨r Papyrologie undEpigraphik 145(2003), 47–59; 138 (2002), 1–10; 155 (2006), 71–84); to the Cambridge University Press for permission to republish chapters 5, 6, and 7 (Classical Quarterly 53 (2003), 206–21; 52 (2002), 517–37; S. J.Harrison(ed.),TheCambridgeCompaniontoHorace(Cambridge, 2007),36–49);andtotheOxfordUniversityPressforpermissionto republish chapter 3 (M. J. Clarke, B. G. F. Currie, R. O. A. M. Lyne (edd.), Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin (Oxford 2006), 105–29). Hilary O’Shea and others at the Press have been kind and helpful as ever. Dr D. McCarthy and Dr K. M. Fearn have assisted indefatigably with production, and Ms S. Newton has copy-edited vigilantly and sympathetically. My wife and daughter have given cheerful support and have endured my cooking, jokes, and papyri with meritorious patience. GregoryHutchinson ExeterCollege,Oxford September2007 Contents ListofIllustrations xi Abbreviations xiii 1. DoingThingswithBooks 1 2. TheAetia:Callimachus’PoemofKnowledge 42 Appendix:Catullus’CallimacheanBookand theLockofBerenice 64 3. HellenisticEpicandHomericForm 66 4. TheNewPosidippusandLatinPoetry 90 5. TheCatullanCorpus,GreekEpigram,andthe PoetryofObjects 109 6. ThePublicationandIndividualityofHorace’s OdesBooks1–3 131 7. HoraceandArchaicGreekPoetry 162 8. Ovid,Amores3:TheBook 177 9. TheMetamorphosisofMetamorphosis:P.Oxy. 4711andOvid 200 Appendix:Metamorphoses9 225 10. StructuringInstruction:DidacticPoetry andDidacticProse 228 11. BooksandScales 251 Bibliography 267 Indexes 309 I. IndexofPassagesDiscussed 309 II. GeneralIndex 320
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