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Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, and Manuel Baumbach, editors, Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309)
Preface. Gregory Nagy
Abbreviations
Editors’ Note
Introduction
1. Susan Stephens and Dirk Obbink, The Manuscript: Posidippus on Papyrus
2. Dirk Obbink, Posidippus On Papyri Then and Now
3. David Sider, Posidippus Old and New
4. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Alexandrian Posidippus: On Rereading the GP Epigrams in Light of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309
5. Gregory Nagy, Homeric Echoes in Posidippus
6. Alexander Sens, Doricisms in the New and Old Posidippus
7. Kathryn Gutzwiller, A New Hellenistic Poetry Book: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309
8. Richard Hunter, Notes on the Lithika of Posidippus
9. Martyn Smith, Elusive Stones: Reading Posidippus’ Lithika through Technical Writing on Stones
10. David Schur, A Garland of Stones: Hellenistic Lithika as Reflections on Poetic Transformation
11. Manuel Baumbach, ‘Winged Words’: Poetry and Divination in Posidippus’ Oiônoskopika
12. Susan Stephens, For You, Arsinoe …
13. Beate Dignas, Posidippus and the Mysteries: Epitymbia Read by the Ancient Historian
14. Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Vision and Visibility: Art Historical Theory Paints a Portrait of New Leadership in Posidippus’ Andriantopoiika
15. Marco Fantuzzi, The Structure of the Hippika in P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309
16. Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Constructing Legitimacy: The Ptolemaic Familiengruppe as a Means of Self-Definition in Posidippus’ Hippika
17. Nassos Papalexandrou, Reading as Seeing: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 and Greek Art
18. Richard F. Thomas, “Drownded in the Tide”: The Nauagika and Some “Problems” in Augustan Poetry
19. Peter Bing, Posidippus’ Iamatika
20. Dirk Obbink, ‘Tropoi’ (Posidippus AB 102–103)
Afterword. Gail Hoffman, An Archaeologist’s Perspective on the Milan Papyrus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309)
Concordance
Bibliography
Figures
Contributors
Abbreviations
AB = Austin, C. and Bastianini, G., eds. Posidippi Pellaei Quae Supersunt Omnia. Milan, 2002.
AP = Palatine Anthology.
APl = Planudean Anthology.
BG = Bastianini, G. and Gallazzi, C. (eds.), con la collaborazione di C. Austin, Posidippo di Pella: Epigrammi (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309). Papiri dell’ Università degli Studi di Milano, 8. Milan, 2001.
BKT = Berliner Klassikertexte. Berlin, 1904–1939.
CA = Powell, J. U., ed. Collectanea Alexandrina. Oxford, 1925.
CEG = Hansen, P. A., ed. Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculorum VII–V a. Chr. Berlin, 1983.
CEG2 = Hansen, P. A., ed. Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculi IV a. Chr. Berlin, 1989.
CGF = Kaibel, G., ed. Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Berlin, 1899.
EG = Page, D. L., ed. Epigrammata Graeca. Oxford, 1975.
FdD = Fouilles de Delphes.
FGE = Page, D. L., ed. Further Greek Epigrams. Cambridge, 1981.
FGrHist = Jacoby, F., ed. Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. Berlin 1923-1930. Leiden 1940–1998.
GLP = Page, D. L., ed. Greek Literary Papyri I. Cambridge, Mass., 1942.
Gow = Gow, A. S. F., ed. Theocritus. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 1952.
GP = Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L., eds. The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1965.
GP Garland = Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L., eds. The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1968.
GV = Peek, W., ed. Griechische Vers-Inschriften I: Grab-Epigramme. Berlin, 1955.
ID = Inscriptions de Délos
IG = Inscriptiones Graecae
I. Metr. Egypt = Bernand, Etienne, ed. Inscriptions métriques de l’Egypte gréco-romaine. Recherches sur la poésie épigrammatique des Grecs en Egypte. Annales littéraires de l’Université de Besançon 98. Paris 1969.
MMA 1908 = Metropolitan Museum of Art: Catalogue of the Collection of Casts. New York, 1908.
MW = Merkelbach, R. and West, M. L., eds. Hesiodi fragmenta selecta. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1990.
OCT = Oxford Classical Texts
OGIS = Dittenberger, W., ed. Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae. 2 vols. Leipzig 1903–5.
P.Berol. = Papyrus Berolinensis
PCG = Kassel, R. and Austin, C., eds. Poetae comici Graeci. Vols. 2–5, 7. Berlin, 1983.
P.Mil.Vogl. = Papiri dell’ Università degli Studi di Milano. Milan 1961–2001.
P.FirminDidot = Papyrus from the Firmin-Didot Collection (cf. P. Louvre).
Pf. = Pfeiffer, R., ed. Callimachus. 2 vols. Oxford, 1949–51.
PLF = Lobel, E. and Page, D., eds. Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta. Oxford, 1955.
P.Lille = Papyrus grecs (Institut Papyrologique de l'Université de Lille).
P.London.Lit. = Milne, H. J. M., ed. Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum. London 1927.
P.Louvre = Papyri in the Département des Antiquités Égyptiennes—Département des Antiquités Grecques, Étrusques et Romaines.
PMG = Page, D. L., ed. Poetae melici Graeci. Oxford, 1962.
PMGF = Davies, M., ed. Poetarum melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta I. Oxford, 1991.
P.Oxy. = The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. London, 1898.
PSI = Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto.
P.Petrie = The Flinders Petrie Papyri. Dublin 1891–1905.
P.Tebt. = The Tebtunis Papyri. London 1902–1976.
RE = Pauly, A., Wissowa, G., and Kroll, W., eds. Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart, 1893–1978.
SB = Preisigke, F., ed. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkinden aus Aegypten. Strasbourg, 1915.
SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.
SH = Lloyd-Jones, H., and Parsons, P., eds. Supplementum Hellenisticum. Berlin, 1983.
SVF = Arnim, H. von, ed. Stoicorum veterum fragmenta. 3 vols. Leipzig, 1903–1921.
W = West, M. L., ed. Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1989.
All references to Posidippus follow the editio minor unless otherwise noted. All references to the Hellenistic Epigrams by Gow-Page are to Posidippus unless otherwise noted.