Culture In Pieces Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons
by Obbink, Dirk; Rutherford, RichardFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2011-08-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Dirk Obbink has held positions at Columbia and Ann Arbor. He was appointed University Lecturer in Papyrology in 1995 and has taught in Oxford since.
Richard Rutherford has been Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church College, Oxford, since 1982.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Richard Rutherford and Dirk Obbink
1. Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco, Dirk Obbink
2. Pindar as a Man of Letters, M. L. West
3. The Papyri of Herodotus, S. R. West
4. The Use and Abuse of Irony, Richard Rutherford
5. Greek Letters in Hellenistic Bactria, Adrian Hollis
6. Menander and his Rivals: New Light from the Comic Adespota on Papyria
7. The Rediscovery of Menander, Eric Handley
8. My Daughter and her Dowry : Smikrines in Menander s Epitrepontes, Colin Austin
9. More Facts from Fragments, Annette Harder
10. Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus, Susan Stephens
11. Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.), Giulio Massimilla
12. The Reputation of Callimachus, Richard Hunter
13. Telling Tales: Ovid s Metamorphoses and Callimachus, Gregory Hutchinson
14. On Ancient Prose Rhythm: The Story of the Dichoreus, Michael Winterbottom
15. Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek Fragments and Arabic Versions, Christoph Riedweg
16. Missing Pages: Papyrology, Genre, and the Greek Novel, Albert Henrichs
Bibliography of Peter Parsons
Indexes
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