Brill's companion to Callimachus

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Brill's companion to Callimachus

edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan Stephens

Brill, 2011

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Companion to Callimachus

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later reception. For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic achievement. Brill's Companion to Callimachus has been designed to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his scholarship is taking.

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Contributors Abbreviations Introduction, Susan Stephens I. The Material Author 1. Callimachus Rediscovered in Papyri, Luigi Lehnus 2. The Aetia through Papyri, Giulio Massimilla 3. Callimachus as Fragment, Annette Harder 4. The Diegeseis Papyrus: Archaeological Context, Format, and Contents, Maria Rosaria Falivene 5. Callimachus' Traces: The First Modern Collectors, Filippomaria Pontani 6. Callimachus' Philology, Nita Krevans 7. Callimachus and His Koinai, Peter Parsons II. Social Contexts 8. Dimensions of Power: Callimachean Geopoetics and the Ptolemaic Empire, Markus Asper 9. Callimachus on Kings and Kingship, Silvia Barbantani 10. Callimachus' Queens, Evelyne Prioux 11. Poet and Court, Gregor Weber 12. The Gods of Callimachus, Richard Hunter 13. Callimachus and Contemporary Religion: The Hymn to Apollo, Ivana Petrovic III. Sources and Models 14. Digging Up the Musical Past: Callimachus and New Music, Lucia Prauscello 15. Callimachus and Contemporary Criticism, Allen J. Romano 16. Callimachus' Muses, Andrew Morrison 17. Callimachus and the Atthidographers, Giovanni Benedetto 18. Callimachus and Fable, Ruth Scodel 19. Proverbs and Popular Sayings in Callimachus, Emanuele Lelli IV. Personae 20. The Poet as a Child, Adele-Teresa Cozzoli 21. Speaking with Authority: Polyphony in Callimachus's Hymns, Marco Fantuzzi 22. Other Poetic Voices in Callimachus, Christophe Cusset 23. Individual Figures in Callimachus, Yannick Durbec 24. Iambic Theatre: The Childhood of Callimachus Revisited, Mark Payne V. Callimachus' Afterlife 25. Roman Callimachus, Alessandro Barchiesi 26. Callimachus and Later Greek Poetry, Claudio De Stefani and Enrico Magnelli 27. Arte Allusiva: Pasquali and Onward, Mario Citroni Epilogue, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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