
He has written the commentary to most epitymbia in the editio princeps of the epigrams of Posidippus (PMilVogl 8.309). His research interests concern Hellenistic poetry and the history of its interpretation in classical scholarship of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Il sogno e l’invettiva: Momenti di storiaĭell’esegesi callimachea, 1993) and the history of classical studies. Giovanni Benedetto is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Milan. Most of his previous publications deal with the major Augustan poets and their poetics, with frequent reference to Callimachus and his influence. Scheidel) and work in progress for his Sather Lectures (2011) on Italy in Virgil’s Aeneid. His recent research includes editing the Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (with W. Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and at Stanford. Her publications include ΦΑΤΙΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΣ: Frammenti di elegia encomiastica nell’età delle guerre galatiche (2001), The Glory of the Spear (2007), and “Idéologie royale et littérature de cour dans l’Égypte lagide” in Des rois au Prince (2010). Silvia Barbantani is currently a Researcher teaching Greek Language and Classical Philology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan and Brescia). He has published papers on Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek mathematics, archaic law and the emergence of standardized forms of argument, the earliest forms of Greek prose, Galen and his readers, and narratives in science. He has authored monographs on Callimachus’ poetic metaphors and the genres of Greek science writing, and has published an edition of Callimachus with German translation. Markus Asper is Professor of Classics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. With Susan Stephens he is the coauthor of Callimachus in Context: From Plato to Ovid (Cambridge, forthcoming). He is the author of Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (2002) and of Arion’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry (2010). ĬONTRIBUTORS Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. Claudio De Stefani and Enrico MagnelliĢ7. Iambic Theatre: The Childhood of Callimachus Revisited. Speaking with Authority: Polyphony in Callimachus’ Hymns. Proverbs and Popular Sayings in Callimachus. Digging Up the Musical Past: Callimachus and the New Music. Callimachus and Contemporary Religion: The Hymn to Apollo. Dimensions of Power: Callimachean Geopoetics and the Ptolemaic Empire. The Diegeseis Papyrus: Archaeological Context, Format, and Contents. Fees are subject to change.ĬONTENTS Contributors.

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Greek poetry, Hellenistic-Egypt-Alexandria-History and criticism. Callimachus-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brill’s companion to Callimachus / edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan Stephens.

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