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In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume demonstrates the versatility of this literature and examines its multiple cultural affiliations. The Hellenistic writers emerge from this volume as complex, playful, and politically engaged figures, interested in the relationship between culture and society, and far removed from the stereotype of them as distant or elitist. This book makes a major contribution to the study of Hellenistic Greek culture. Susan Stephens is the Sarah Hart Kimball Emerita Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, USA. Her contributions to the study of Hellenistic literature and culture are immense. She is the author of over fifty articles and the author or editor of ten books. Many of these publications have made a significant impact on the study of the ancient world. Her research on the poets of Alexandria and on ancient Greek prose fiction is widely regarded as path-breaking. She is an inspiring and influential teacher who guided and mentored generations of students and is closely associated with Stanford, where she obtained her undergraduate and doctoral degrees and where she taught from 1978 until her retirement. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Stanford University.

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Author:   Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (University of Virginia, USA) ,  Phiroze Vasunia (University College London, UK) ,  Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781350288119

ISBN 10:   135028811
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Contributors Preface Foreword Abbreviations PART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE 1. Semonides, Fragment 1, as an Iambic Catalogue in Stanzas (Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, USA) 2. The Humble and the Grand: Realism in Euripides’ Electra (Marco Fantuzzi, University of Roehampton, UK, and Mathias Hanses, Penn State University, USA) PART II COMING TO EGYPT 3. Iter ad Aegyptum: Alexander’s Trip to Memphis (Daniel L. Selden, University of California, USA) PART III CALLIMACHUS 4. Neglected Splendors: Alcman’s Louvre Partheneion and Callimachus' Tale of Phrygius and Pieria (Giulio Massimilla, University of Naples, Italy) 5. Callimachus’ Duplicitous Iambos (Don Levigne, Texas Tech University, USA) 6. From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus (Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University, USA) 7. Them He Cannot Take: Callimachus’ Epigram for Heraclitus (Phiroze Vasunia, UCL, UK) 8. Advisory Tops: Callimachus Ep. 54 Gow/Page (1 Pf.) (Markus Asper, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 9. On a New Papyrus Fragment of Callimachus’ Hecale (P.Ant. III 179 add.) (Giovan Battista d’Alessio, KCL, UK) 10. No Lyre for Heracles (Peter Parsons, Oxford University, UK) 11. Strabo’s Callimachus (Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, UK) PART IV HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN CULTURE 12. Seeing Double: Apollonius’ Two Phaethons (Ivana Petrovic, University of Virginia, USA) 13. “Apollonius speaks Greek, Petiharenpi speaks Egyptian”: Cross-Cultural Self-Fashioning in the Serapeum Archive (Edward Kelting, University of Califorina, USA) 14. Young Snakes, Old Models: Hellenistic Poetics and Literary Heritage in Nicander, Theriaca 343–58 (Alexander Sens, Georgetown University, USA) 15. The Death of the Author: Hesiod’s Double Burial in Epigrams of Mnasalkes (AP 7.54 = 18 GP) and Alkaios (AP 7.55 = 12 GP) and in the Biographical Tradition (Peter Bing, University of Toronto, Canada) 16. Doomscrolling at Segesta: An Allusion to Lycophron in Virgil, Aeneid 5. 552-4 (Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU, USA) 17. Father Ammon and the King (Jay Reed, Brown University, USA) 18. Crinagoras of Mytilene and Octavia (Roland Mayer, KCL, UK) 19. Poets, Plants, and Riddles (Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati, USA) PART V ANCIENT PROSE FICTION 20. The sparagmos of Parthenope between Ancient Novel and Myth (Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, University of Virginia, USA) 21. Alexandria in the Ancient Greek Novels (Stephen Nimis, Miami University, USA) AFTERMATH 22. Practicing Orthodoxy: Body Language in Sophronius’ Thaumata (Maud Gleason, Stanford University, USA) 23. Reading Stephens (Lee Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) A Bibliography of Susan A. Stephens Index

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This excellent volume … features an impressive line-up of world-leading scholars whose contributions, very frequently inspired by [Professor] Stephens’ scholarship, celebrate its legacy and make important, often even major, contributions to their respective fields … The quality of the contributions and the quality of the edition itself celebrate in the most appropriate way a career as remarkable as that of Prof. Stephens. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University, USA. Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, USA. Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK.

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