Susan Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
T.A. Hadjimichael. The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic
In his introduction, Frankfurter states the ambitious goal of redirecting modern studies of magic from the etic (where what constitutes magic is determined by the modern author) to the emic (where it is the ancient cultures being studied that decide what rituals are unsanctioned or illegitimate). His constituent ancient world is centered mainly on Mediterranean countries and includes Greek, Roman, Jewish, Mesopotamian, Persian, and Egyptian cultu…
An Oasis City by Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, Olaf Kaper, and Susanna McFadden
Review Article| January 01 2020 An Oasis City by Roger S. Bagnall, Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, Olaf Kaper, and Susanna McFadden Bagnall, Roger S.; Aravecchia, Nicola; Cribiore, Raffaella; Davoli, Paola; Kaper, Olaf; McFadden, Susanna, An Oasis City (New York: New York University Press, 2015), 240 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 17…
Seeing Double
When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic…
The Poets of Alexandria
Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuv…
Callimachean ‘Lyric’
The present paper considers how Callimachus incorporates archaic lyric forms in new articulations in his poems. Despite writing in stichic rather than strophic meters, Callimachus works the epinician, the threnos and the paean into elegiac and hexametric works. In some cases, such as the
Egypt in Italy
Book Review| September 01 2017 Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture Swetnam-Burland, Molly, Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 249 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 531. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Ancient Libraries
Callimachus and His Narrators
The City in the Literature of Antiquity
Callimachus
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Book Review| August 01 2013 Rethinking the Other in Antiquity Gruen, Erich, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 413 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 577–578. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2282080 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephen…
When the Gods Were Born
Book Review| April 01 2013 When the Gods Were Born López-Ruiz, Carolina, When the Gods Were Born (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 302 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 386. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073452 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; When the Gods We…
Callimachus in Context
Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often unders…
Brill's Companion to Callimachus
Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later re…
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories
Book Review| August 01 2011 Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories Parkinson, R. B., Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories (Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 392 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 541. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305454 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
Book Review| January 01 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology R. S. Bagnall, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) 688 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 195. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-057 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; The Oxford Handbook of Papy…
Cleopatra
Book Review| April 01 2010 Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 290 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 294. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2009-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; Cleopatra: Last Queen o…
City of the sharp-Nosed Fish
Book Review| January 01 2010 City of the sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World Peter Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World (Phoenix: Orion Books, 2007), 258 pages. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-080 Cite …
Hellenistic Culture
This article suggests an appeal to a broader cultural contextualization, calling on scholars to look at the interactions between Greek and non-Greek cultures in the Hellenistic period, which followed the reign of Alexander, and in which he continued to enjoy cult status. It emphasizes contrasting trends that emerge in relation to ethnic identity: non-Greeks learn Greek and adopt Greek customs; while Greeks often marry into local non-Greek populat…
Portrait of a Priestess
Book Review| August 01 2009 Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 415 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 518–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-050 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Ptolemaic Epic
Cultural identity
The Alexander Romance is a fictionalised account of Alexander's conquests that stands at what many take to be the beginning of the novel writing enterprise in antiquity. The story opens with the last pharaoh of Egypt, Nectanebo II, learning that his country was about to be conquered, fleeing to Macedon, setting up shop as a magician, and seducing Philip's queen Olympias. Nectanebo, not Philip II, fathers Alexander, and as a result Alexander is bo…
Hellenistic Egypt
Book Review| August 01 2008 Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, ed. and intro. Roger Bagnall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 302 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-030 Views Icon Views Article contents Figur…
Lessons of the Crocodile
Research Article| April 01 2005 LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 215–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE. Common Knowledge 1 April 2005; 11 (2): 215–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Download ci…
Brill's Companion to Callimachus
Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later re…
The Novel in the Ancient World
This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition. The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among those looking for new sources on the popul…
Rereading Callimachus' "Aetia" Fragment 1
Ancient Greek Novels
The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos , Phoinikika , Sesonchosis , and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the identifiable novel fragments, including the epitomes of Iamblichos' Babyloniaka and Antonius Diogenes' Incredible Things Beyond Thule . Intended for s…
Seeing Double
When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic…
Hellenistic Egypt
Book Review| August 01 2008 Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, ed. and intro. Roger Bagnall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 302 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-030 Views Icon Views Article contents Figur…
The Poets of Alexandria
Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuv…
Lessons of the Crocodile
Research Article| April 01 2005 LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 215–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE. Common Knowledge 1 April 2005; 11 (2): 215–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Download ci…
Women in the Ancient World
Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library II
American Studies in Papyrology XXIV
Ancient Greek Novels
The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos , Phoinikika , Sesonchosis , and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the identifiable novel fragments, including the epitomes of Iamblichos' Babyloniaka and Antonius Diogenes' Incredible Things Beyond Thule . Intended for s…
Fragments of Lost Novels
This chapter focuses on broadly interpretative issues rather than grammatical particularities of the text or the reconstruction of scenes, although occasionally the two areas intersect. Metiochus and Parthenope is the best known fragment that belongs to Ideal-Romantic Novels type. The fragment shares several features in common with Xenophon's Ephesiaka. Apollonius consists of two very small and disconnected fragments. The category of the national…
The Novel in the Ancient World
This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition. The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among those looking for new sources on the popul…
Commenting on Fragments
This volume explores the theory, historical practice, and future of the traditional commentary on classical texts. Special topics include the relationship between texts, commentators and readers; citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; and the impact of the Internet
Rereading Callimachus' "Aetia" Fragment 1
Posidippus’ Poetry Book
Lessons of the Crocodile
Research Article| April 01 2005 LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 215–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE. Common Knowledge 1 April 2005; 11 (2): 215–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-2-215 Download ci…
Ptolemaic Epic
Cultural identity
The Alexander Romance is a fictionalised account of Alexander's conquests that stands at what many take to be the beginning of the novel writing enterprise in antiquity. The story opens with the last pharaoh of Egypt, Nectanebo II, learning that his country was about to be conquered, fleeing to Macedon, setting up shop as a magician, and seducing Philip's queen Olympias. Nectanebo, not Philip II, fathers Alexander, and as a result Alexander is bo…
Hellenistic Egypt
Book Review| August 01 2008 Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, ed. and intro. Roger Bagnall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 302 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-030 Views Icon Views Article contents Figur…
Hellenistic Culture
This article suggests an appeal to a broader cultural contextualization, calling on scholars to look at the interactions between Greek and non-Greek cultures in the Hellenistic period, which followed the reign of Alexander, and in which he continued to enjoy cult status. It emphasizes contrasting trends that emerge in relation to ethnic identity: non-Greeks learn Greek and adopt Greek customs; while Greeks often marry into local non-Greek populat…
Portrait of a Priestess
Book Review| August 01 2009 Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 415 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 518–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-050 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & table…
Cleopatra
Book Review| April 01 2010 Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 290 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 294. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2009-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; Cleopatra: Last Queen o…
City of the sharp-Nosed Fish
Book Review| January 01 2010 City of the sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World Peter Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World (Phoenix: Orion Books, 2007), 258 pages. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-080 Cite …
Brill's Companion to Callimachus
Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, Callimachus has now come to be understood as an artificer of the images of a powerful and vibrant court and as a poet second only to Homer in his later re…
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories
Book Review| August 01 2011 Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories Parkinson, R. B., Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories (Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 392 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 541. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305454 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
Book Review| January 01 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology R. S. Bagnall, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) 688 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 195. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-057 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; The Oxford Handbook of Papy…
Callimachus in Context
Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often unders…
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Book Review| August 01 2013 Rethinking the Other in Antiquity Gruen, Erich, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 413 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 577–578. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2282080 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephen…
When the Gods Were Born
Book Review| April 01 2013 When the Gods Were Born López-Ruiz, Carolina, When the Gods Were Born (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 302 pp. Susan Stephens Susan Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 386. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073452 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Stephens; When the Gods We…
The City in the Literature of Antiquity
Callimachus
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