The Scroll and the Marble : Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

by: Bing, P.

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 One of the most prominent figures in American Hellenistic poetry scholarship, Peter Bing has long served as a model for acute criticism and careful reading. He has a marvelous ability to make readers rethink their preconceptions; his work is always beautifully argued and documented and his writing style is a pleasure to engage with. --Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University While people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This was the first era in which poets consciously shaped their works with an eye toward publication and reception not just on the civic stage but in several media--in performance, on inscribed monuments, in scrolls. The essays in Peter Bing's collection explore how poetry accommodated various audiences and how these audiences in turn experienced the text in diverse ways. Over the years, Bing's essays have focused on certain Hellenistic authors and genres--particularly on Callimachus and Posidippus and on epigram. His themes, too, have been broadly consistent. Thus, although the essays in The Scroll and the Marble span some twenty years, they offer a coherent vision of Hellenistic poetics as a whole. Peter Bing is Professor of Classics at Emory University and editor, most recently, of the Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip (coedited with Jon Steffen Bruss).

Ch. 1. The unruly tongue : Philitas of Cos as scholar and poet
Ch. 2. Impersonation of voice in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo
Ch. 3. Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter
Ch. 4. Reconstructing Berenike's lock
Ch. 5. Erganzungsspiel in the epigrams of Callimachus
Ch. 6. Text or performance/text and performance : Alan Cameron's Callimachus and his critics
Ch. 7. The un-read muse? Inscribed epigram and its readers in antiquity
Ch. 8. Allusion from the broad, well-trodden street : the Odyssey in inscribed and literary epigram
Ch. 9. Reimagining Posidippus
Ch. 10. Between literature and the monuments
Ch. 11. Posidippus' Iamatika
Ch. 12. Posidippus and the admiral : Kallikrates of Samos in the epigrams of the Milan Posidippus papyrus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)
Ch. 13. The politics and poetics of geography in the Milan Posidippus section one, on stones 1-20 AB

Subjects:
Callimachus
Callimachus Criticism and interpretation
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Epigrams, Greek
Epigrams, Greek History and criticism
Épigrammes grecques Histoire et critique
Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr
Greek poetry, Hellenistic
Greek poetry, Hellenistic History and criticism
Griechisch
LITERARY CRITICISM Ancient & Classical
LITERARY CRITICISM General
Lesekultur
Poésie grecque hellénistique Histoire et critique
Posidippus, of Pella, approximately 310 B.C.-approximately 240 B.C
Posidippus, of Pella, approximately 310 B.C.-approximately 240 B.C. Criticism and interpretation
Rezeption
TRAVEL Special Interest Literary
Versdichtung

The Scroll and the Marble : Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

by: Bing, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780472116324 / 978-0-472-11632-4
• ISBN-03: 0472116320 / 0-472-11632-0
• The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2009

Price: 77,00 EURO

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