Lithic poetics: Posidippus and his stones

The 20 poems collected together as the lithika of Posidippus, the first surviving poems on a papyrus roll only published in 2001 and dating from the third century BCE, offer a range of spectacular new evidence for a series of issues in Hellenistic history, art and literature. The standard view is th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elsner, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014