Callimachus: The Epigrams: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Callimachus: The Epigrams Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary Edited by: Susan A. Stephens and Benjamin Acosta-HughesAbout this book Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies of these poems and the history of their collection, as well as by the publication in 2001 of a newly found papyrus, P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, that preserves over 100 epigrams of Posidippus of Pela. Missing hitherto in this proliferation of new scholarship on epigram is an edition and commentary in English on the epigrams of Callimachus, one of the leading and most widely imitated creative figures of this period, an artist who composed in a wide variety of poetic genres, one of which was epigram. Callimachus’ epigrams adumbrate a broad selection of types, among them sepulchral, dedicatory, epideictic and erotic poems; the poems are brilliant artworks themselves and are among the most illuminating examples of this poetic genre. Scholarship on Callimachus tends to favor the fragmentary poems (the Aetia, the Hecale, the Iambi etc.) over the extant; our study seeks to redress this imbalance, and to cast a new interpretive light upon these glittering gems, which came to be widely admired and imitated in both later Greek and Latin poetry. Author Editor information Susan A. Stephens, Stanford University (em.), Stanford; Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.Table of contents FrontmatterDedicationPreface and AcknowledgmentsContentsList of Tables, Map, and IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroductionTexts and Commentary 1 Pittacus 54 G-P2 Heraclitus 34 G-P3 Timon 52 G-P4 Timon Again 51 G-P5 The Nautilus 14 G-P6 Creophylus 55 G-P7 Theaetetus 57 G-P8 I Win 58 G-P9 Saon 41 G-P10 Timarchus 33 G-P11 Theris 35 G-P12 Critias of Cyzicus 43 G-P13 Charidas 31 G-P14 Charmis 44 G-P15 Timonoe 40 G-P16 Crethis 37 G-P17 Sopolis 45 G-P18 Lycus the Naxian 38 G-P19 Loss of a Son 46 G-P20 Melanippus and Basilo 32 G-P21 On Callimachus? Father 29 G-P22 Astacides the Goatherd 36 G-P23 Cleombrotus 53 G-P24 Heros Relief 60 G-P25 Lovers? Oaths 11 G-P26 A Small Life 47 G-P27 Aratus of Soli 56 G-P28 Lysanies 2 G-P29 Diocles 5 G-P30 Cleonicus 12 G-P31 The Hunter 1 G-P32 Menippus 7 G-P33 Dedication to Artemis 21 G-P34 An Oak Branch for Heracles 22 G-P35 Callimachus? Epitaph for Himself 30 G-P36 Erasixenus 62 G-P37 Menitas from Lyktos 17 G-P38 Simon 20 G-P39 Dedication to Demeter 19 G-P40 A Priestess of Demeter 48 G-P41 The Divided Soul 4 G-P42 Archinus 8 G-P43 The Wounds of Love 13 G-P44 Hidden Passions 9 G-P45 Menecrates 10 G-P46 Polyphemus 3 G-P47 Dedication of a Salt Cellar 28 G-P48 Dedication of a Tragic Mask 26 G-P49 Dedication of a Comic Mask 27 G-P50 The Wet Nurse Aeschra 49 G-P51 Berenice the Fourth Grace 15 G-P52 Theocritus 6 G-P53 On the Birth of a Daughter 23 G-P54 A Payment to Asclepius 24 G-P55 A Lamp for Sarapis 16 G-P56 A Cock for the Tyndaridae 25 G-P57 A Dedication to Isis 18 G-P58 The Kindness of Strangers 50 G-P59 The Madness of Writing Tragedy 59 G-P60 Cimon of Elis 39 G-P61 Menecrates of Aenos 42 G-P62 Cynthian Goats 61 G-P63 Conopion 63 G-PEpigram Fragments Fragment 1 Diodorus Cronus fr. 393 Pf., 64 a b G-PFragment 2 A Sacred Fish fr. 394 Pf., 65 a b G-PFragment 3 Dyme fr. 395 Pf., 66 G-PFragment 4 Antimachus? Lyde fr. 398 Pf., 67 G-PFragment 5 Chian vs Lesbian Wine fr. 399 Pf., 68 G-PFragment 6 Propempticon fr. 400 Pf., 69 G-PFragment 7 The Sequestered Girl fr. 401 Pf., 70 G-PFragment 8 (testimonia) Menander Drowning fr. 396 Pf.Fragment 9 (testimonia) On the Margites fr. 397 Pf.Fragment 10 (testimonia) fr. 402 Pf.BibliographyGreek WordsList of PeopleList of PlacesList of Works CitedGeneral IndexConcordances