Labored in Papyrus Leaves

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: B. Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, M. Baumbach, Benjamin Acosta&, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, E. Kosmetatou
• Assisted by: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Editor), Manuel Baumbach (Editor), Elizabeth Kosmetatou (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780674011052
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01105-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies Lecture; Hellenic Studies Series; Hellenic Studies (HUP)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama