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Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focussing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry - and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions.

Greek poetry. --- Greek poetry

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L’opera di Angela Cinalli, la prima di una serie, si pone sulla scia dello studio preliminare condotto ormai un secolo fa da Margherita Guarducci (MAL 1927-1929, s. 6 vol. 2, 629-665). Essa raccoglie per la prima volta in maniera sistematica e analitica tutta la rilevante documentazione epigrafica (decreti onorari, dediche e basi statuarie, epigrammi celebrativi e funerari) di età ellenistica relativa a Delo e alle Cicladi sull’attività degli intellettuali e degli artisti della musica e della scena -sia poeti che interpreti- in ambito letterario e musicale, che si spostavano da un centro all’altro del mondo greco partecipando alle occasioni cittadine e seguendo le rotte delineate dalle occasioni agonistico-festive. Si tratta di figure che solo in rari casi risultano note anche dalle testimonianze letterarie, ma che non per questo sono di minor interesse per la ricostruzione della cultura greca del periodo ellenistico, e che contribuiscono a riportare alla luce una ricchissima produzione artistica e letteraria ‘popolare’, quasi del tutto perduta, ma di cui è almeno possibile, attraverso il dato epigrafico, cogliere aspetti rilevanti.-

Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- History and criticism

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Greek poetry --- Greek language --- History and criticism --- Metrics and rhythmics

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"This is an anthology of private funerary poems in Greek from the archaic period until later antiquity. The vast majority of these poems were inscribed on tombs or grave stelai and served to identify, celebrate and mourn the dead. It is not in fact very difficult to distinguish such 'funerary' poems from other types of inscription, even if there are important overlaps in style and subject between, say, some honorific and some epitaphic verse-inscriptions; what can be much more difficult, however, is to distinguish 'public' from 'private' inscriptions, and indeed to decide what, if anything, is at stake in the distinction and how that distinction changed over time. Our earliest verse epitaphs seem to be 'private', in the sense that, as far as we can tell, they were designed and erected by the family of the deceased. For the fifth century, however, our evidence is predominantly Attic, and, from the first three-quarters of the century in particular, we have very few clearly 'private' such inscriptions, as opposed to those either sponsored or displayed (or both) by public authorities; this was the age of public burials and public commemorations in polyandry or 'multiple tombs', which (quite literally) embodied the spirit of public service demanded of male citizens. 'Private' poems too, of course, reflected the ideology of the city in which they were displayed, and we must not assume that a 'public-private' distinction mapped exactly on to some ancient equivalent of a modern 'official-unofficial' one. 'Private' inscriptions, for example, might need 'public' blessing to be erected in a particularly prominent place or even to use a particular language of praise."--

Epitaphs --- Greek poetry. --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Biography --- Inscriptions --- Tombs --- Greek literature --- Epitaphs. --- Greece.

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This is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems Oichalias Halosis by Kreophylos of Samos and Herakleia by Peisandros of Kamiros. The Greek text (divided between testimonies and fragments) is accompanied by detailed critical apparatus and English translation. There are also extensive introductions to the biography of each poet, the title of the poem, its content and style, as well as a careful examination of the relative chronology of each epic. The detailed commentary of every fragment offers an up-to-date examination of all the extant material that has come down to us through a rich indirect tradition. This is the second installment of the project Early Greek Epic Poets (vol. I: Genealogical and Antiquarian Epic, De Gruyter 2017), which aims to enhance the study of Greek epic poetry of the archaic and classical period by means of providing readers with authoritative editions and commentaries of a significant part of fragmentary early Greek epic.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism