Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection

by David Sider (Editor)

Overview

This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currently available for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry. Most have never before appeared in a similar collection; several have only recently been discovered. The text of each poem is presented, together with basic help on obscure vocabulary, morphology, dialect, meter, syntax, and similar philological issues. The individual commentaries, written by the leading international scholars on Hellenistic poetry, are designed to help the reader with difficult aspects of the language, as well as to provide some basic guidance to each poem’s literary significance and a brief introduction to the relevant scholarship.

Among the forty-four named and anonymous poets represented here are Apollonius of Rhodes, Archimedes, Aristotle, Callimachus, Cercidas, Corinna, Eratosthenes, Erinna, Ezekiel, Hermesianax, Herodas, Lycophron, and Phanocles.

Contributors to the volume include: David Sider, Silvia Barbantani, James Clauss, Dee Clayman, Christophe Cusset, Claudio De Stefani, Marco Fantuzzi, Andrew Ford, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Johanna Hanink, Regina Höschele, Richard Hunter, David Konstan, Pauline LeVen, Kelly MacFarlane, Enrico Magnelli, Jackie Murray, Pura Nieto Hernández, Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi, S. Douglas Olson, Floris Overduin, Richard Rawles, Ralph Rosen, Chad Schroeder, Alexander Sens, Evina Sistakou, Michael Tueller, and Athanassios Vergados.

Although designed primarily as a textbook for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates, the book offers texts and subsidiary information not easily found (if at all) elsewhere. Since Latin poets made constant allusion to Hellenistic poetry, it will also be an important resource for Latinists.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472073139
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	12/05/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

David Sider is Professor of Classics, New York University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xv

About the Contributors xvii

Texts and Commentaries

Anonymi

1 Atthis Epitaph Johanna Hanink 3

2 Epigram on Augustus Silvia Barbantani 7

3 Erythraean Paean to Asclepius Pauline LeVen 18

4 Grenfell Erotic Fragment Regina Höschele 24

5 The Salmacis Inscription David Sides 32

6 The Tattoo Elegy Richard Rawles 40

Named Authors

7 Alexander of Ephesus Christophe Cusset 56

8 Apollonius of Rhodes

Argonautica, selections Jackie Murray 64

Fragments Evina Sistakou 97

9 Aratus David Konstan PuraNieto Hernández 108

10 Archestratus of Gela S. Douglas Olson 127

11 Archimedes David Sider 142

12 Archimelus S. Douglas Olson 149

13 Ariphron Andrew Ford 152

14 Aristonous Pauline LeVen 157

15 Aristotle Andrew Ford 164

16 Bion Marco Fantuzzi 169

17 Callimachus

Aitia Fragments 178 and 143 Richard Hunter 186

Iambi 4 Dee Clayman 212

18 Cercidas Ralph Rosen 224

19 Choerilus Kelly MacFarlane 236

20 Corinna Athanassios Vergados 243

21 Crates of Thebes Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi 264

22 Eratosthenes David Sider 272

23 Erinna Kathryn Gutzwiller 277

24 Eudemus Floris Overduin 287

25 Euphorion Enrico Magnelli 293

26 Ezekiel Chad Schroeder 310

27 Hermesianax David Sider 322

28 Herodas Regina Höschele 338

29 Isyllus Pauline LeVen 354

30 Lycophron Alexander Sens 369

31 Matro of Pitane Alexander Sens 386

32 Melinno Kathryn Gutzwiller 400

33 Moero Kathryn Gutzwiller 405

34 Moschus Evina Sistakou 412

35 Nicaenetus Evina Sistakou 437

36 Nicander of Colophon James J. Clauss 440

37 Phanocles Michael Tueller 462

38 Philodamus of Scarpheia Pauline LeVen 471

39 Philoxenus Athanassios Vergados 485

40 Phoenix of Colophon Claudio De Stefani 509

41 Pseudo-Scymnus Richard Hunter 524

42 Theocritus 537

Idyll 20 Marco Fantuzzi 537

Idyll 27 David Sider 545

43 Timolaus of Larissa David Sider 553

44 Timon of Phlius Dee Clay man 555

Index 575

Editorial Reviews

"Sider has marshalled many prominent scholars of Hellenistic poetry to produce a volume that will be an excellent resource for researchers and students alike: a commentary on over 40 Hellenistic authors and texts, ranging from the relatively well known to the obscure and the anonymous."
—The Classical Review

Classical Review