TY - BOOK AU - Bing,Peter TI - The scroll and the marble: studies in reading and reception in Hellenistic poetry SN - 9780472026692 AV - PA3081 .B56 2009eb U1 - 809 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Callimachus KW - Posidippus, KW - Callimachus. KW - Greek poetry, Hellenistic KW - History and criticism KW - Epigrams, Greek KW - Poésie grecque hellénistique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Épigrammes grecques KW - TRAVEL KW - Special Interest KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - Ancient & Classical KW - fast KW - Versdichtung KW - gnd KW - Rezeption KW - Lesekultur KW - Griechisch KW - swd KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and indexes; Ch. 1. The unruly tongue : Philitas of Cos as scholar and poet -- Ch. 2. Impersonation of voice in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo -- Ch. 3. Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter -- Ch. 4. Reconstructing Berenike's lock -- Ch. 5. Erganzungsspiel in the epigrams of Callimachus -- Ch. 6. Text or performance/text and performance : Alan Cameron's Callimachus and his critics -- Ch. 7. The un-read muse? Inscribed epigram and its readers in antiquity -- Ch. 8. Allusion from the broad, well-trodden street : the Odyssey in inscribed and literary epigram -- Ch. 9. Reimagining Posidippus -- Ch. 10. Between literature and the monuments -- Ch. 11. Posidippus' Iamatika -- Ch. 12. Posidippus and the admiral : Kallikrates of Samos in the epigrams of the Milan Posidippus papyrus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) -- Ch. 13. The politics and poetics of geography in the Milan Posidippus section one, on stones 1-20 AB; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - One of the most prominent figures in American Hellenistic poetry scholarship, Peter Bing has long served as a model for acute criticism and careful reading. He has a marvelous ability to make readers rethink their preconceptions; his work is always beautifully argued and documented and his writing style is a pleasure to engage with. --Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University While people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This was the first era in which poets consciously shaped their works with an eye toward publication and reception not just on the civic stage but in several media--in performance, on inscribed monuments, in scrolls. The essays in Peter Bing's collection explore how poetry accommodated various audiences and how these audiences in turn experienced the text in diverse ways. Over the years, Bing's essays have focused on certain Hellenistic authors and genres--particularly on Callimachus and Posidippus and on epigram. His themes, too, have been broadly consistent. Thus, although the essays in The Scroll and the Marble span some twenty years, they offer a coherent vision of Hellenistic poetics as a whole. Peter Bing is Professor of Classics at Emory University and editor, most recently, of the Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip (coedited with Jon Steffen Bruss). Jacket illustration: Film still from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures 1939. Courtesy of Sony Pictures UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=328936 ER -