Epigram Beyond Alexandria: Samus of Macedon and Philip V
By Thomas J. Nelson (University of Oxford)
Epigram is a key and underexploited resource for the growing interest in Hellenistic literature beyond Alexandria (e.g. Nelson (2020), Visscher (2020)). Most of the major epigrammatists in Gutzwiller’s Poetic Garlands (1998) are associated with the Ptolemies (e.g.
Poetic Voices on Stone: Signatures of Poets in Dedicatory Epigrams
By Flavia Licciardello (University of Bologna)
Epigraphic poetry is usually anonymous and inscribed Greek epigrams are no exception. In a few cases, however, authors of epigrams left their signature on the stone. Santin’s (2009) pioneering study on the topic only focused on signatures of poets for funerary epigrams, which are all dated from the 2nd century BC onwards. Yet the earliest examples of signatures are from the 4th century BC and are not found in sepulchral contexts; rather, they accompany epigrams engraved on dedications (so-called dedicatory epigrams).
Planudean Margins and Book 7 of the Palatine Anthology
By Michael A. Tueller (Arizona State University)
Planudean Margins and Book 7 of the Palatine Anthology
Watch and Think: Mind-reading in Greek Epigram
By Taylor S. Coughlan (University of Pittsburgh)
Over the past several decades literary studies have profited from theoretical advances in cognitive science and the study of human consciousness (e.g. Zunshine 2006; Leverage et al. 2010). The cognitive turn has now arrived to the study of ancient literature (e.g. Meineck et al. 2019).
Object, Matter, and Medium in Hellenistic Epigram
By Verity J. Platt (Cornell University)
One of the most influential aspects of Kathryn Gutzwiller’s scholarship has been her elucidation of the relationship between Hellenistic epigrams and material objects (Gutzwiller 2002a), from her recognition in Poetic Garlands that processes of anthologization go hand in hand with the replication of opera nobilia (1998) to her field-changing analyses of Posidippus’