Brill's Companion to Callimachus (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies) (English and Greek Edition)

Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later reception. For the modern audience, the fragmentation of his texts and the diffusion of source materials has often impeded understanding his poetic achievement. Brill s Companion to Callimachus has been designed to aid in negotiating this scholarly terrain, especially the process of editing and collecting his fragments, to illuminate his intellectual and social contexts, and to indicate the current directions that his scholarship is taking." Brill’s Companionto Callimachus 2 Contents 4 Contributors 8 Abbreviations 15 Introduction 17 Part One The Material Author 36 Chapter One Callimachus Rediscovered in Papyri 37 Chapter Two The Aetia through Papyri 53 Chapter Three Callimachus as Fragment 77 Chapter Four The Diegeseis Papyrus: Archaeological Context, Format, and Contents 95 Chapter Five Callimachus Cited 107 Chapter Six Callimachus’ Philology 132 Chapter Seven Callimachus and His Koinai 148 Part Two Social Contexts 167 Chapter Eight Dimensions of Power: Callimachean Geopoetics and the Ptolemaic Empire 168 Chapter Nine Callimachus on Kings and Kingship 191 Chapter Ten Callimachus’ Queens 214 Chapter Eleven Poet and Court 238 Chapter Twelve The Gods of Callimachus 258 Chapter Thirteen Callimachus and Contemporary Religion: The Hymn to Apollo 277 Part Three Sources and Models 299 Chapter Fourteen Digging Up the Musical Past: Callimachus and the New Music 300 Chapter Fifteen Callimachus and Contemporary Criticism 320 Chapter Sixteen Callimachus’ Muses 340 Chapter Seventeen Callimachus and the Atthidographers 360 Chapter Eighteen Callimachus and Fable 379 Chapter Nineteen Proverbs and Popular Sayings in Callimachus 395 Part Four Personae 415 Chapter Twenty The Poet as a Child 416 Chapter Twenty-One Speaking with Authority: Polyphony in Callimachus’ Hymns 438 Chapter Twenty-Two Other Poetic Voices in Callimachus 463 Chapter Twenty-Three Individual Figures in Callimachus 483 Chapter Twenty-Four Iambic Theatre: The Childhood of Callimachus Revisited 502 Part Five Callimachus’ Afterlife 517 Chapter Twenty-Five Roman Callimachus 518 Chapter Twenty-Six Callimachus and Later Greek Poetry 541 Chapter Twenty-Seven Arte Allusiva: Pasquali and Onward 573 Epilogue 594 Bibliography 609 Index Locorum 664 Index Rerum 689 This volume is the combined effort of over thirty scholars. They analyize Callimachus, the 3rd-century Alexandrian poet, from literary and technical perspectives, reception and influence. It is designed to facilitate the work of scholars and teachers in the classroom.