Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach, on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press.This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic. These texts are considered as individual poems and as collective artifact, an early poetry book. The volume will be of interest to readers of Greek and Latin epigram, students of the Hellenistic period, and all readers interested in the aesthetics of poetry collection and the evolution of the poetry book in antiquity.
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.
Elizabeth Kosmetatou is a Fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).
Manuel Baumbach is Wissenschaftlicher Assistant of Professor Dr. G. W. Most of the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg.