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Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later reception.
For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic achievement. Brill’s Companion to Callimachus has been designed to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his scholarship is taking.
For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic achievement. Brill’s Companion to Callimachus has been designed to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his scholarship is taking.
Price: $344.00
Pages: 710
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Publication Date:
27 July 2011
ISBN: 9789004156739
Format: Hardcover
"[...]Acosta-Hughes, Lehnus, and Stephens have managed to assemble a collection of essays that not only advances Callimachean studies significantly, but, even more amazingly, is a delight to read from start to finish. I will be returning to all of these papers in the years ahead because one read does not suffice, given the detail, and because sometimes a μέγα βιβλίον can actually be a μέγα καλόν. James J. Clauss in BMCR, 30.05.2012
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He has published extensively on Hellenistic poetry, most recently Arion’s Lyre. Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry (Princeton, 2010).
Luigi Lehnus is professor of Classical Philology at the Università Statale di Milano. A scholar of Archaic lyric, Hellenistic poetry and Roman poetry, he is the editor of the forthcoming Teubner edition of Callimachus’ fragments.
Susan Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She is the author of Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (Berkeley 2003).
Contributors include: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Marcus Asper, Silvia Barbantani, Alessandro Barchiesi, Giovanni Benedetto, Mario Citroni, Adele- Teresa Cozzoli, Christophe Cusset, Claudio De Stefani, Yannick Durbec, Maria-Rosaria Falivene, Marco Fantuzzi, Annette Harder, Richard Hunter, Nita Krevans, Luigi Lehnus, Emanuele Lelli, Enrico Magnelli, Giulio Massimilla, Andrew Morrison, Peter Parsons, Mark Payne, Ivana Petrovic, Filippomaria Pontani, Lucia Prauscello, Évelyne Prioux, Allen Romano, Ruth Scodel, Susan Stephens, Gregor Weber.
Luigi Lehnus is professor of Classical Philology at the Università Statale di Milano. A scholar of Archaic lyric, Hellenistic poetry and Roman poetry, he is the editor of the forthcoming Teubner edition of Callimachus’ fragments.
Susan Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She is the author of Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (Berkeley 2003).
Contributors include: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Marcus Asper, Silvia Barbantani, Alessandro Barchiesi, Giovanni Benedetto, Mario Citroni, Adele- Teresa Cozzoli, Christophe Cusset, Claudio De Stefani, Yannick Durbec, Maria-Rosaria Falivene, Marco Fantuzzi, Annette Harder, Richard Hunter, Nita Krevans, Luigi Lehnus, Emanuele Lelli, Enrico Magnelli, Giulio Massimilla, Andrew Morrison, Peter Parsons, Mark Payne, Ivana Petrovic, Filippomaria Pontani, Lucia Prauscello, Évelyne Prioux, Allen Romano, Ruth Scodel, Susan Stephens, Gregor Weber.