The Laurel and the Olive: Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

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The Laurel and the Olive

Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

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Published/Copyright: 2024

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A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.

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Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Part I: Discourses of Present and Past
1 “Rosy-Armed Dawn”: A New Text and an Old Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and Aeneid 6.458) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	6
3 Callimachus, Hipponax and the Persona of the Iambographer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
4 In the Glassy Stream: Some further Thoughts on Callimachus and Pindar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
5 The Prefigured Muse: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
6 The Cicada’s Song: Plato in the Aetia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
7 Poets in Dialogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
8 Bucolic Singers of the Short Song: Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
9 Aesthetics and Recall: Callimachus Frs. 226–9 Pf. Reconsidered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
10 The Wandering Tendril: An Essay on Hellenistic Metapoetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
11 Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
12 Reflections: Two Letters, and Two Poets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
13 A Gift of Callimachus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
14 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
15 Implications of Ecphrasis: Two Homeric Objects, Two Hellenistic Poets, One Common Alexandrian Poetic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
16 From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
Part II: The Aesthetics of Alexandria
17 The Goddess Playing with Gold: On the Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
18 In Helen’s Image: Visualizing a Queen. Representations of Arsinoe II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
19 Those who Ascend to Heaven: Apotheosis in Rome and Alexandria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	262
20 A Lost Pavane for a Dead Princess: Call. Fr. 228 Pf. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
21 Gems for a Princess: Female Figures in the Posidippus Papyrus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	294
22 That I be your Plaything: The Cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
23 The Dioscuri in Alexandrian Poetry: Character and Symbolic Role Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
24 Reconfiguring Myth: Heracles in Alexandria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	338
25 The Homeric Shore of Alexandria: A Narrative of a Culture in Motion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
26 The Italian Landscape in Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
27 Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
28 “Nor when a Man Goes to Dionysus’ Holy Contests” (Theocritus 17.112): Outlines of Theatrical Performance in Theocritus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	404
29 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	422
Part III: The Poetics of Desire
30 Love and the Hunter: Callimachus and Platonic Paideia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
31 A Little-Studied Dialogue: Responses to Plato in Callimachean Epigram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	462
32 On the Threshold of Time: The Short Spring of Male Beauty and the Epyllion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
33 The Breast of Antinous: The Male Body as Erotic Object in Hellenistic Image and Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	487
34 Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
35 There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love — Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
36 I Alone Had an Untimely Love: The Ephebic ‘Epyllia’ of Dionysiaka 10–11 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
37 The Poem Remembers: Conceptualization of Memory in the Poetry of Callimachus and Cavafy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	533
General Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	571
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	583
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	593

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June 4, 2024

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9783110787672

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June 4, 2024

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9783110787504

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Front matter:

19

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598

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12

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3

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787672

eBook ISBN: 9783110787672

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Mimesis; Alexandria; Callimachus; Homoerotica

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Literary studies scholars, scholars in gender studies, Hellenistic poetry studies, Roman poetry studies

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