The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book

by: Gutzwiller, K.

Price: 149,00 EURO

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The New Posidippus
A Hellenistic Poetry Book
Kathryn Gutzwiller
Contains a complete poetic translation of the newly discovered Greek text
Provides a carefully considered, interdisciplinary overview of this major new literary discovery

Description
The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100 previously unknown epigrams by one of the most prominent poets of the third century BC, but as an artefact it constitutes our earliest example of a Greek poetry book. In addition to a poetic translation of the entire corpus of Posidippus' poetry, this volume contains essays about Posidippus by experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Augustan literature, Ptolemaic history, and Graeco-Roman visual culture.

Table of Contents
1:Introduction, Kathryn Gutzwiller
2:The Poems of Posidippus, Frank Nisetich
I. Papyrus Rolls, Readers, and Editors
3:Back from the Dead with Posidippus, Colin Austin
4:The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader, William Johnson
5:The Editor's Toolbox: Strategies for Selection and Presentation in the Milan Epigram Papyrus, Nita Krevans
6:New Old Posidippus and Old New Posidippus: From Occasion to Edition in the `Epigrams', Dirk Obbink
II. A Book in Sections
7:The Politics and Poetics of Geography in the Milan Posidippus, Section One: In Stones, Peter Bing
8:Cabinet Fit for a Queen: The `Lithika' as Posidippus' Gem Museum, Ann Kuttner
9:Posidippus on Weather Signs and the Tradition of Didactic Poetry, David Sider
10:Posidippus and the Truth in Sculpture, Andrew Stewart
11:The Art of Poetry and the Poetry of Art: The Unity and Poetics of Posidippus' Statue-Poems, Alexander Sens
III. Posidippus in a Ptolemaic Context
12:Battle of the Books, Susan Stephens
13:`Posidippus' at Court: The Contribution of the `Hippika' of P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309 to the Ideology of Ptolemaic Kingship, Marco Fantuzzi
14:Posidippus, Poet of the Ptolemies, Dorothy J. Thompson
IV. A Hellenistic Book and its Literary Context
15:The Literariness of the Milan Papyrus, or What Difference a Book?, Kathryn Gutzwiller
16:The Search for the Perfect Book: A PS to the New Posidippus, Alessandro Barchiesi

The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book

by: Gutzwiller, K.

• ISBN-13: 9780199267811 / 978-0-19-926781-1
• ISBN-03: 0199267812 / 0-19-926781-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 149,00 EURO

1 copy in stock