This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic. These texts are considered as individual poems and as collective artifact, an early poetry book. The volume will be of interest to readers of Greek and Latin epigram, students of the Hellenistic period, and all readers interested in the aesthetics of poetry collection and the evolution of the poetry book in antiquity.

About the Author
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan. Elizabeth Kosmetatou is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Manuel Baumbach is Wissenschaftlicher Assistant of Professor Dr. G. W. Most of the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg. Beate Dignas is Tutor in Ancient History, Somerville College, Oxford. Dirk Obbink is University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. David Schur is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. Kai Trampedach is Professor of Ancient History at Heidelberg University.


Book Information
ISBN 9780674011052
Author Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Publisher Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Weight(grams) 485g