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

Contents

Contents
List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 part 1. Reader and Voice in Callimachus and Hellenistic Poetry chapter 1. The Unruly Tongue: Philitas of Cos as Scholar and Poet 11 chapter 2. Impersonation of Voice in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo 33 chapter 3. Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter 49 chapter 4. Reconstructing Berenike’s Lock 65 part 2. Epigram and Its Audiences chapter 5. Ergänzungsspiel in the Epigrams of Callimachus 85 chapter 6. Text or Performance / Text and Performance: Alan Cameron’s Callimachus and His Critics 106 chapter 7. The Un-Read Muse? Inscribed Epigram and Its Readers in Antiquity 116 chapter 8. Allusion from the Broad, Well-Trodden Street: The Odyssey in Inscribed and Literary Epigram 147 viii Contents part 3. Inscription and Bookroll in Posidippus chapter 9. Reimagining Posidippus 177 chapter 10. Between Literature and the Monuments 194 chapter 11. Posidippus’ Iamatika 217 chapter 12. Posidippus and the Admiral: Kallikrates of Samos in the Epigrams of the Milan Posidippus Papyrus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) 234 chapter 13. The Politics and Poetics of Geography in the Milan Posidippus Section One, on Stones 1–20 AB 253 Bibliography 273 Index of Ancient Passages Cited 293 Subject Index 302 ...