Munere mortis: Studies in Greek literature in memory of Colin Austin

Eftychia Bathrellou · Margherita Maria Di Nino

okt 2022 · Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements Boek 45 · Cambridge Philological Society

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Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honor his memory. The papers combine philology and textual criticism with a strong interest in setting the works under examination in their literary and cultural context. Individual contributions are devoted to the establishment of the text of the comic poet Menander and the epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, while one chapter offers a new critical edition of and the first detailed commentary on a number of erotic epigrams. Other essays explore poetic, performative and narratological features in Socratic works of Plato and Xenophon. The volume also includes an analysis of the trope of pathetic fallacy in the bucolic poem Epitaph for Bion and a study of the concept of ‘frigidity’ in ancient literary criticism.

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Eftychia Bathrellou is a researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEC, FLUL) working on Greek Comedy and ancient slavery. Margherita Maria Di Nino is a classicist working on Hellenistic poetry, with a special interest in Posidippus and bucolic poetry.