Labored in Papyrus Leaves

Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)

Manuel Baumbach editor Benjamin Acosta-Hughes editor Elizabeth Kosmetatou editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Published:15th May '04

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Labored in Papyrus Leaves cover

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.

ISBN: 9780674011052

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 485g

250 pages