Callimachus : The Epigrams : Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

by: Stephens, S.A. Acosta-Hughes, B.

Callimachus: The Epigrams
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Edited by: Susan A. Stephens and Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

About this book
Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies of these poems and the history of their collection, as well as by the publication in 2001 of a newly found papyrus, P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, that preserves over 100 epigrams of Posidippus of Pela. Missing hitherto in this proliferation of new scholarship on epigram is an edition and commentary in English on the epigrams of Callimachus, one of the leading and most widely imitated creative figures of this period, an artist who composed in a wide variety of poetic genres, one of which was epigram. Callimachus' epigrams adumbrate a broad selection of types, among them sepulchral, dedicatory, epideictic and erotic poems; the poems are brilliant artworks themselves and are among the most illuminating examples of this poetic genre. Scholarship on Callimachus tends to favor the fragmentary poems (the Aetia, the Hecale, the Iambi etc.) over the extant; our study seeks to redress this imbalance, and to cast a new interpretive light upon these glittering gems, which came to be widely admired and imitated in both later Greek and Latin poetry.
Author / Editor information
Susan A. Stephens, Stanford University (em.), Stanford; Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Dedication

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Tables, Map, and Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Texts and Commentary
1 — Pittacus | 54 G-P

2 — Heraclitus | 34 G-P

3 — Timon | 52 G-P

4 — Timon Again | 51 G-P

5 — The Nautilus | 14 G-P

6 — Creophylus | 55 G-P

7 — Theaetetus | 57 G-P

8 — “I Win” | 58 G-P

9 — Saon | 41 G-P

10 — Timarchus | 33 G-P

11 — Theris | 35 G-P

12 — Critias of Cyzicus | 43 G-P

13 — Charidas | 31 G-P

14 — Charmis | 44 G-P

15 — Timonoe | 40 G-P

16 — Crethis | 37 G-P

17 — Sopolis | 45 G-P

18 — Lycus the Naxian | 38 G-P

19 — Loss of a Son | 46 G-P

20 — Melanippus and Basilo | 32 G-P

21 — On Callimachus? Father | 29 G-P

22 — Astacides the Goatherd | 36 G-P

23 — Cleombrotus | 53 G-P

24 — Heros Relief | 60 G-P

25 — Lovers? Oaths | 11 G-P

26 — A Small Life | 47 G-P

27 — Aratus of Soli | 56 G-P

28 — Lysanies | 2 G-P

29 — Diocles | 5 G-P

30 — Cleonicus | 12 G-P

31 — The Hunter | 1 G-P

32 — Menippus | 7 G-P

33 — Dedication to Artemis | 21 G-P

34 — An Oak Branch for Heracles | 22 G-P

35 — Callimachus? Epitaph for Himself | 30 G-P

36 — Erasixenus | 62 G-P

37 — Menitas from Lyktos | 17 G-P

38 — Simon | 20 G-P

39 — Dedication to Demeter | 19 G-P

40 — A Priestess of Demeter | 48 G-P

41 — The Divided Soul | 4 G-P

42 — Archinus | 8 G-P

43 — The Wounds of Love | 13 G-P

44 — Hidden Passions | 9 G-P

45 — Menecrates | 10 G-P

46 — Polyphemus | 3 G-P

47 — Dedication of a Salt Cellar | 28 G-P

48 — Dedication of a Tragic Mask | 26 G-P

49 — Dedication of a Comic Mask | 27 G-P

50 — The Wet Nurse Aeschra | 49 G-P

51 — Berenice the Fourth Grace | 15 G-P

52 — Theocritus | 6 G-P

53 — On the Birth of a Daughter | 23 G-P

54 — A Payment to Asclepius | 24 G-P

55 — A Lamp for Sarapis | 16 G-P

56 — A Cock for the Tyndaridae | 25 G-P

57 — A Dedication to Isis | 18 G-P

58 — The Kindness of Strangers | 50 G-P

59 — The Madness of Writing Tragedy | 59 G-P

60 — Cimon of Elis | 39 G-P

61 — Menecrates of Aenos | 42 G-P

62 — Cynthian Goats | 61 G-P

63 — Conopion | 63 G-P

Epigram Fragments
Fragment 1 — Diodorus Cronus | fr. 393 Pf., 64 a + b G-P

Fragment 2 — A Sacred Fish | fr. 394 Pf., 65 a + b G-P

Fragment 3 — Dyme | fr. 395 Pf., 66 G-P

Fragment 4 — Antimachus? Lyde | fr. 398 Pf., 67 G-P

Fragment 5 — Chian vs Lesbian Wine | fr. 399 Pf., 68 G-P

Fragment 6 — Propempticon | fr. 400 Pf., 69 G-P

Fragment 7 — The Sequestered Girl | fr. 401 Pf., 70 G-P

Fragment 8 (testimonia) — Menander Drowning | fr. 396 Pf.

Fragment 9 (testimonia) — On the Margites | fr. 397 Pf.

Fragment 10 (testimonia) | fr. 402 Pf.

Bibliography

Greek Words

List of People

List of Places

List of Works Cited

General Index

Concordances

Callimachus : The Epigrams : Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

by: Stephens, S.A. Acosta-Hughes, B.

• ISBN-13: 9783110770452 / 978-3-11-077045-2
• ISBN-03: 3110770458 / 3-11-077045-8
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025