The Traveling Reader: Journeys through Ancient Epigram Books

Höschele, Regina

doi:10.1353/apa.2008.0010

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“…48 See Rapp (2005) for the necessary background here. 49 See Krevans (2007) and in particular Höschele (2007), (2010); and, on Martial, Fitzgerald (2007); Rimell (2008); MacDonald (2017). Maltomini (2011) 124 is typical if extremely strongly worded when she writes of AP, 'the organisation of material does not correspond to a particular expression of knowledge, nor is it informed by a high level of systematicity' (our translation).…”

Section: Gregory Of Nazianzus: the Polemics Of Death And Memorialmentioning

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

Goldhill

Greensmith²

2020

Camb. class. j.

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This article is the first to consider book 8 of the Palatine Anthology as an integrated collection. Book 8 consists of funerary epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus. We consider how the book is structured as a coherent collection, what its place in the Palatine Anthology is and, above all, how these underdiscussed poems contribute to the changing discourse of death in fourth-century Christianity. We also look at how the poems contribute to the Byzantine culture in which the Palatine Anthology was put together. The article reveals how Gregory rewrites both the positive values of death in a Christian community and negative descriptions of those who transgress such values.

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“…4Cameron (1993); Lauxtermann (1998); for the second strand see e.g. Goldhill (1994); Gutzwiller (1998); Harder, Regtuit and Wakker (2002); Nisbet (2003); Bing and Bruss (2007); Gurd (2007); Höschele (2007), (2010); Prioux (2007), (2008). …”

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

Goldhill

Greensmith²

2020

Camb. class. j.

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“…Odyssey 6.191, 7.193, 8.301. 21 On the literal and figurative movements of reading epigrams seeHöschele (2007).…”

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COUNTING ON EPIC: MATHEMATICAL POETRY AND HOMERIC EPIC IN ARCHIMEDES' CATTLE PROBLEM

Leventhal¹

2015

Ramus

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In 1773, the celebrated enlightenment thinker G.E. Lessing discovered in Wolfenbüttel's Herzog August Library a manuscript which contained a previously unknown Ancient Greek poem. The manuscript identified the author as Archimedes (c.287-212 BCE), and the work became known as the Cattle Problem (henceforth CP). On the surface, its twenty-two couplets capitalise on Homer's depiction of the ‘Cattle of the Sun’ in Book 12 of the Odyssey and its numerical aspect. A description of the related proportions of black, white, brown and dappled herds of cattle, which are then configured geometrically on Sicily, creates a strikingly colourful image. The author's decision to encode a number into the figure of the Cattle of the Sun styles the poem as a response to, and expansion of, Homer's scene. Reading through the work, though, it becomes clear that the mathematics is more complex than that of Homer's Odyssey.

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“…4.68, with an echo also of Horace, Epistle 1.12.25. Citroni (1975), 21; Roman (2006) and (2010); Höschele (2007), 350-54.…”

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Text, Book, and Textbook: Martial's Experiments in the Codex

Blake

2014

Ramus

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Of all the Roman poets, Martial is perhaps the most concerned with his material medium; the physical book itself is a major character in theEpigrams. In the context of epigram-writing, this is not so unusual; as a genre, epigram is traditionally self-conscious of its development from ‘stone to book’. As recent scholarly work has shown, however, Martial's concern with the materiality of his poetry goes to the heart of his poetic project, as he reworks images inherited from Greek epigram as well as from Catullus, Horace and Ovid to fashion a new poetics of Flavian epigram and a correspondingly unique concept of the poetry book.

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The Traveling Reader: Journeys through Ancient Epigram Books

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

COUNTING ON EPIC: MATHEMATICAL POETRY AND HOMERIC EPIC IN ARCHIMEDES' CATTLE PROBLEM

Text, Book, and Textbook: Martial's Experiments in the Codex

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