Peter Bing
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 319146 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Bing |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Bing |
| FIRMA | BING P |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture
The Ptolemies fostered a literature of exquisite polish and slender proportions, most strikingly embodied in Callimachus, whose aesthetic principles became synonymous with Alexandrian artistry. At the same time, however, they had a penchant for ostentatious display and gigantism, as evidenced, for example, in Ptolemy Philadelphus’ ‘Grand Procession’. While these two impulses might appear to be at odds, we argue that Ptolemaic patronage embraced a…
Anachronism as a Form of Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature
This chapter discusses anachronism as a form of metalepsis and different ways of understanding anachronism in the ancient and modern worlds. The chapter begins by highlighting potential complexities in applying Genette’s model of metalepsis to ancient literature, drawing out the differences between the case of a character about to murder a reader in Cortázar’s ‘Continuity of Parks’ (discussed by Genette) and that of a character, Helen, blinding a…
Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm
Chapter 19 examines how Palladas in his epigrams turned ecphrasis into a medium for contemplating the tension between the Greek literary and cultural heritage and the sociopolitical and religious environment of his own turbulent times; in the hands of Palladas, ecphrastic modes are adapted to describe the dire realities of an age when statues of Greek gods were defaced, demolished, recast, or reconfigured by Christians. While ecphrases traditiona…
Thanks Again to Aristaenetus
Tombs of Poets’ Minor Characters
This chapter focuses on Hellenistic epigrams commemorating the death of minor literary characters: a hero named just once in Homer, the slaughtered children of Medea, a prostitute berated by Sappho, the daughters of Lycambes vilified by Archilochus, and the lovely Baucis, Erinna’s friend. It argues that these commemorations reveal an aspect of the Hellenistic reception of earlier Greek poetry—its avid engagement with the tradition, extending even…
Text or Performance / Text and Performance. Alan Cameron's Callimachus and His Critics
Discontinuity, change, innovation: These are the terms which most scholars in this century have stressed - one-sidedly, perhaps - in characterizing Hellenistic poetry. In Callimachus and His Critics, Alan Cameron attacks the widespread notion that Hellenistic poets were confined to an ivory tower, writing only for an elite circle of readers, remote from the general public. In The Symposium, Cameron spreads a truly dazzling array of texts testifyi…
Epicurus and the Iuvenis at Virgil's Eclogue 1.42
‘But tell us, Tityrus, who is that god?’ ( sed tamen, iste deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nobis ). This is what the herdsman Meliboeus asks in Virgil's first Eclogue ( Ecl . 1.18) in response to Tityrus' assertion that a certain deity granted him the leisure to sing and to pasture his herd ( o Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. | namque erit ille mihi semper deus , Ecl . 1.6–7). In posing this question, the herdsman raises the issue of this god's i…
Anacreontea avant la lettre
BING"Imitate Anacreon", τὸν Ἀνακρέοντα μιμοῦ.These words ring out as a kind of rallying cry near the close of the final poem of the Carmina Anacreontea (60.30), proclaiming the anthology's basic program, the imperative to mimic the master poet of Teos.For "Imitation", as Patricia Rosenmeyer put it in her fundamental and still indispensible study of the Anacreontics, "is the modus scribendi of the collection" (Rosenmeyer [1992: 11]).The multiple p…
Games of Venus
Recent attacks on contemporary art have portrayed the erotic content of works by Robert Mapplethorpe and others as if it were a deviation from the Western artistic tradition. On the contrary, there is a rich tradition of eroticism in the arts beginning with the erotic verse of ancient Greek and Roman poets.Games of Venus, the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Greek and Roman erotic verse, revives this tradition for the modern re…
A Proto-Epyllion? The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral
Afterlives of a Tragic Poet
Article Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: Anecdote, Image and Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides was published on December 15, 2011 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 57, issue 1)
Preliminary material
Indexes
Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's Garland, others on Philip's; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with d…
Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Band 2. Die Norküste Kleinasiens
The Unruly Tongue
Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Volume 1, Die Westküste Kleinasiens von Knidos bis Ilion
Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter
P. Bing: Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter 29 Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter Peter Bing The Hellenistic Era saw revived interest in die Homeric Hymns. And among these the Homeric Hymn to Demeter is no exception.1 One need look no further than Book 4 of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica to see that this hymn was not just available to die poets of die Age; it was carefully read and appreciated.2 Yet its impact on Callimachus is less easy to …
Ergänzungsspiel in the Epigrams of Callimachus
Games of Venus
A Pun on Aratus' Name in Verse 2 of the Phainomena?
The Well-Read Muse
Theocritus' Epigrams on the Statues of Ancient Poets
The Well-Read Muse
The Poet's Link to the Literary Past Chapter 3 - Callimachus' Hymn to Delos Chapter 4 - Conclusion Structural Diagram of the Hymn to Delos Bibliography Index Locorum Subject Index
Homo Necans
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's Garland, others on Philip's; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with d…
Ergänzungsspiel in the Epigrams of Callimachus
The Well-Read Muse
The Unruly Tongue
Theocritus' Epigrams on the Statues of Ancient Poets
Epicurus and the Iuvenis at Virgil's Eclogue 1.42
‘But tell us, Tityrus, who is that god?’ ( sed tamen, iste deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nobis ). This is what the herdsman Meliboeus asks in Virgil's first Eclogue ( Ecl . 1.18) in response to Tityrus' assertion that a certain deity granted him the leisure to sing and to pasture his herd ( o Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. | namque erit ille mihi semper deus , Ecl . 1.6–7). In posing this question, the herdsman raises the issue of this god's i…
Kastorion of Soloi's Hymn to Pan (Supplementum Hellenisticum 310)
Kastorion of Soloi's Hymn to Pan (Supplementum Hellenisticum 310)
Homo Necans
Theocritus' Epigrams on the Statues of Ancient Poets
The Well-Read Muse
The Poet's Link to the Literary Past Chapter 3 - Callimachus' Hymn to Delos Chapter 4 - Conclusion Structural Diagram of the Hymn to Delos Bibliography Index Locorum Subject Index
A Pun on Aratus' Name in Verse 2 of the Phainomena?
The Well-Read Muse
Games of Venus
Ergänzungsspiel in the Epigrams of Callimachus
Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter
P. Bing: Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter 29 Callimachus and the Hymn to Demeter Peter Bing The Hellenistic Era saw revived interest in die Homeric Hymns. And among these the Homeric Hymn to Demeter is no exception.1 One need look no further than Book 4 of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica to see that this hymn was not just available to die poets of die Age; it was carefully read and appreciated.2 Yet its impact on Callimachus is less easy to …
Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Volume 1, Die Westküste Kleinasiens von Knidos bis Ilion
Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Band 2. Die Norküste Kleinasiens
The Unruly Tongue
Preliminary material
Indexes
Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's Garland, others on Philip's; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with d…
Afterlives of a Tragic Poet
Article Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: Anecdote, Image and Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides was published on December 15, 2011 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 57, issue 1)
A Proto-Epyllion? The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral
Games of Venus
Recent attacks on contemporary art have portrayed the erotic content of works by Robert Mapplethorpe and others as if it were a deviation from the Western artistic tradition. On the contrary, there is a rich tradition of eroticism in the arts beginning with the erotic verse of ancient Greek and Roman poets.Games of Venus, the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Greek and Roman erotic verse, revives this tradition for the modern re…
Anacreontea avant la lettre
BING"Imitate Anacreon", τὸν Ἀνακρέοντα μιμοῦ.These words ring out as a kind of rallying cry near the close of the final poem of the Carmina Anacreontea (60.30), proclaiming the anthology's basic program, the imperative to mimic the master poet of Teos.For "Imitation", as Patricia Rosenmeyer put it in her fundamental and still indispensible study of the Anacreontics, "is the modus scribendi of the collection" (Rosenmeyer [1992: 11]).The multiple p…
Epicurus and the Iuvenis at Virgil's Eclogue 1.42
‘But tell us, Tityrus, who is that god?’ ( sed tamen, iste deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nobis ). This is what the herdsman Meliboeus asks in Virgil's first Eclogue ( Ecl . 1.18) in response to Tityrus' assertion that a certain deity granted him the leisure to sing and to pasture his herd ( o Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. | namque erit ille mihi semper deus , Ecl . 1.6–7). In posing this question, the herdsman raises the issue of this god's i…
Tombs of Poets’ Minor Characters
This chapter focuses on Hellenistic epigrams commemorating the death of minor literary characters: a hero named just once in Homer, the slaughtered children of Medea, a prostitute berated by Sappho, the daughters of Lycambes vilified by Archilochus, and the lovely Baucis, Erinna’s friend. It argues that these commemorations reveal an aspect of the Hellenistic reception of earlier Greek poetry—its avid engagement with the tradition, extending even…
Text or Performance / Text and Performance. Alan Cameron's Callimachus and His Critics
Discontinuity, change, innovation: These are the terms which most scholars in this century have stressed - one-sidedly, perhaps - in characterizing Hellenistic poetry. In Callimachus and His Critics, Alan Cameron attacks the widespread notion that Hellenistic poets were confined to an ivory tower, writing only for an elite circle of readers, remote from the general public. In The Symposium, Cameron spreads a truly dazzling array of texts testifyi…
Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm
Chapter 19 examines how Palladas in his epigrams turned ecphrasis into a medium for contemplating the tension between the Greek literary and cultural heritage and the sociopolitical and religious environment of his own turbulent times; in the hands of Palladas, ecphrastic modes are adapted to describe the dire realities of an age when statues of Greek gods were defaced, demolished, recast, or reconfigured by Christians. While ecphrases traditiona…
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