A Companion to Hellenistic Literature

568 Pages·2010·3.502 MB·English

by  James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers

A COMPANION TO HELLENISTIC LITERATURE
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A COMPANION TO
HELLENISTIC
LITERATURE
Edited by
James J. Clauss
and Martine Cuypers
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Contents
List of Maps viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
Abbreviations xvii
1 Introduction 1
James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers
PART I Contexts 15
2 From Alexander to Augustus 17
Andrew Erskine
3 Literatureand the Kings 30
RolfStrootman
4 Ptolemaic Alexandria 46
Susan Stephens
5 Education 62
Jessica Wissmann
PART II Poetry 79
6 The PrefiguredMuse:Rethinking a FewAssumptions
on Hellenistic Poetics 81
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
7 Callimachus’ Aetia 92
AnnetteHarder
vi Contents
8 Hellenistic Elegy: Out from Under the Shadow
of Callimachus 106
JackieMurray
9 Epigram 117
Jon S. Bruss
10 Apollonius’ Argonautica 136
Adolf K¨ohnken
11 Narrative HexameterPoetry 151
Annemarie Amb¨uhl
12 Hymnsand Encomia 166
AnthonyW.Bulloch
13 Sung Poetry: The Case of Inscribed Paeans 181
MarcoFantuzzi
14 Aratus 197
KatharinaVolk
15 Nicander 211
Enrico Magnelli
16 The Bucolic Fiction of Theocritus 224
Mark Payne
17 Idyll 6and the Development of Bucolicafter Theocritus 238
J.D. Reed
18 Iambosand Parody 251
Ruth Scodel
19 Herodas and the Mime 267
Elena Esposito
20 Menander’s Comedy 282
Susan Lape
21 Hellenistic Tragedyand Lycophron’s Alexandra 297
Alexander Sens
PART III Prose 315
22 Historiography,Rhetoric, andScience: Rethinking
a Few AssumptionsonHellenistic Prose 317
Martine Cuypers
23 LiteraryCriticism 337
Kathryn J.Gutzwiller
24 Philosophyafter Aristotle 366
StephenA. White
Contents vii
25 From Polybius to Dionysius: TheDecline and Fall
of Hellenistic Historiography 384
Alain M. Gowing
26 Prose Fiction 395
TimWhitmarsh
PART IV Neighbors 413
27 Jewish Literature 415
Erich S. Gruen
28 EgyptianLiterature 429
Jacco Dielemanand Ian S. Moyer
29 Literature inWestern Asia 448
Silke Knippschild
30 From the Head of Zeus: The Beginnings
of RomanLiterature 463
James J.Clauss
Bibliography 479
Index 535
Maps
2.1. The Hellenistic Kingdoms (c. 240 BCE) 18
4.1. AncientAlexandria 50
Notes on Contributors
BenjaminAcosta-HughesisProfessorof gram and Hellenistic poetry, and he is
GreekandLatinattheOhioStateUniver- the co-editor of Brill’s Companion to
sity.HisprincipalinterestsareHellenistic Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip
poetryandArchaiclyric.Heistheauthor (2007).
of Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus
Anthony W. Bulloch is Professor of
and the Archaic Iambic Tradition
Classics at the University of California,
(2002), and of Arion’s Lyre: Archaic
Berkeley.HeistheauthorofCallimachus:
LyricintoHellenisticPoetry(2010).With
The Fifth Hymn (1985), the section on
SusanStephensheiscurrentlyco-author-
HellenisticpoetryinTheCambridgeHis-
ingabookonCallimachus.
toryofClassicalLiterature,vol.1(1985),
Annemarie Ambu¨hl has taught at the and co-editor of Images and Ideologies:
University of Basel and the University Self-definition in the Hellenistic World
of Groningen. Her publications include (1993).Heisalsojointeditoroftheon-
Kinder und junge Helden: Innovative goingUniversityofCaliforniaPressseries
AspektedesUmgangsmitderliterarischen HellenisticCultureandSociety.
Tradition bei Kallimachos (2005) and
articles on Hellenistic epigram. She is JamesJ.ClaussisProfessorofClassicsat
currently working as a post-doctoral re- the University of Washington, Seattle.
searcher at Groningen on the reception He is the author of The Best of the Argo-
ofAttictragedyandHellenisticpoetryin nauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero
Lucan’s Bellum civile. in Book 1 of Apollonius’ Argonautica
(1993), the co-editor of Medea: Essays
Jon S. Bruss has taught at Bethany
onMedeainMyth,Literature,Philosophy,
Lutheran College, St. Olaf College, the
andArt(1997),andtheco-translatorof
UniversityoftheSouth,andtheUniver-
Rome and Environs: An Archaeological
sity of Kansas. He is the author of Hid-
Guide by Filippo Coarelli(2007).
den Presences: Monuments, Gravesites,
and Corpses in Greek Funerary Epigram MartineCuypersisLecturerinGreekat
(2005) as well as various articles on epi- Trinity College Dublin. She is preparing
x Notes on Contributors
a commentary on Apollonius’ Argonau- is close to completinga commentededi-
ticaandtheco-editorofBeginningfrom tion of the Rhesus ascribed to Euripides.
Apollo: Studies in Apollonius and the His next book project is a commentary
Argonautic Tradition (2005). She also on Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De com-
maintains the online Hellenistic Biblio- positione verborum.
graphy.
Alain M. Gowing is Professor of Clas-
Jacco Dieleman is Assistant Professor of sics at the University of Washington,
Egyptology at the University of Califor- Seattle. His chief interests lie in the area
nia, Los Angeles. He is the author of of Roman historiography and literature,
Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London- especially of the Imperial period. His
Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Trans- publications include The Triumviral
lation in Egyptian Ritual (2005), and Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio
co-editor of the UCLA Encyclopedia of (1992), and Empire and Memory: The
Egyptology. Representation of the Roman Republic in
ImperialCulture(2005).Heiscurrently
Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient
working on a book tentatively titled
History at the University of Edinburgh.
‘‘Genius urbis: The City of Rome in
A specialist in Hellenistic history, he is
LatinHistoriography.’’
the author of Troy between Greece and
Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood
Power (2001) and The Hellenistic Stoa: Professor of History and Classics Emeri-
Political Thought and Action (1990). tus at the University of California, Ber-
He is also the editor of A Companion to keley. His contributions in Hellenistic
theHellenisticWorld(2003)andACom- andJewishstudiesincludeTheHellenistic
panion toAncient History (2009). World and the Coming of Rome (1984),
Heritage and Hellenism (1998), Dia-
ElenaEspositoisLecturerattheUniver-
spora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans
sityofFlorence,Istitutopapirologico‘‘G.
(2002), Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic
Vitelli,’’andTutorinGreekLiteratureat
Appropriations in Antiquity (ed. 2005),
the University of Bologna. Her main
andsurveyarticlesintheBlackwellCom-
interests are Hellenistic poetry and
panion to the Hellenistic World (2003),
Greek lexicography. She has published Il
theCambridgeCompaniontotheHellen-
Fragmentum Grenfellianum (P.Dryton
istic World (2006), and the Oxford
50)(2005)andmanyarticlesonHerodas
Handbook of Biblical Studies (2006). He
and the mime. Her current project is a
is currently completing a book tenta-
commented edition of Greek lexica pre-
tively titled ‘‘Confronting the ‘Other’:
served on papyri for the series Commen-
Greek, Roman, and Jewish Impressions
tariaetLexicaGraecainPapyrisReperta.
of the Alien.’’
MarcoFantuzziteachesGreekliterature
at Columbia University, New York, and Kathryn J. Gutzwiller is Professor of
at the University of Macerata. He has Classics at the University of Cincinnati.
published widely on Hellenistic poetry She has published widely in Hellenistic
and Athenian tragedy, and is the author literature,theinteractionofartandtext,
of Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium and literary criticism. Recent books are
(1985),RicerchesuApollonioRodio:dia- Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in
cronie della dizione epica (1988), and, Context (1998), A Guide to Hellenistic
with Richard Hunter, Tradition and In- Literature(2007),andaneditedvolume
novationinHellenisticPoetry(2004).He entitledTheNewPosidippus:AHellenistic