Erotic Objectification in the Epigrams of Philodemus
By Matthew Chaldekas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Recent years have seen much new scholarship on the prose writings of Philodemus of Gadara. But before the decipherment of the Herculaneum papyri, Philodemus was primarily known for his epigrams, and he still has much to teach us about Hellenistic poetry.
Playing with Traditions: Lucilian Satire and Herodian Mime
By Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh
In recent years, numerous studies have documented the indebtedness of early Roman comic genres to Greek antecedents, and more specifically connected Lucilius’ Satires to Greek comedy (see particularly Delignon 2004 and Pezzini 2018; cf. already Fiske 1920 and Fraenkel 1922).
Deciphering the Alexipharmaca’s “Incomplete” Acrostic
By Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis
Nicander’s Theriaca has recently experienced renewed attention (Clauss 2006; Overduin 2013; 2015; Wilson 2018), but his other surviving poem, the
Hellenistic Jewish Epic Between Homer and the Septuagint
By Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford
In this paper, I analyse the fragments of two Hellenistic epics which both retell Jewish biblical tradition through the medium of epic poetry: Philo’s On Jerusalem (
Rivers as Sources and Symbols of Displacement: The Representation of Three Callimachean Rivers in Lycophron’s Alexandra
By Kathleen Kidder, University of Houston
Rivers course through the verse of the Hellenistic period.
The Syracusia Affair: Archimelus, Moschion, and Sicilian Cultural Politics
By Brett Evans, Georgetown University
Scholars of Hellenistic Sicily have paid increasing attention to how Hieron II of Syracuse (r. 275-215) used cultural patronage to assert his status on the Hellenistic world stage (Lehmler 2005; Zambon 2006; Veit 2013; Krüger 2022).