Hellenistic Literature and Culture

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.

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.

• List of IllustrationsContributorsPrefaceForewordAbbreviationsPART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE1. 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 EGYPT3. Iter ad Aegyptum: Alexander’s Trip to Memphis (Daniel L. Selden, University of California, USA)PART III CALLIMACHUS4. 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 CULTURE12. 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 FICTION20. 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)AFTERMATH22. 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. StephensIndex