Brill Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception

Editors Baumbach (classics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) and Bar (classics, U. of Zurich, Switzerland) organized a conference in Zurich in 2009, out of which grew this volume. They offer a short introduction to the ancient epyllion, including some of the issues of definition regarding this class of poems and the contested value of applying this category. Twenty-three contributions discuss the history and development of the term and works of successive periods beginning with the archaic, pre-Hellenistic, and Hellenistic and continuing through the late Roman Republic, the Augustan period, the imperial period, and the Middle Ages and beyond. The volume is thoroughly indexed. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Manuel Baumbach, Dr. phil. (1997) in Classics, University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Classics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His research focuses on Hellenistic Poetry and the Second Sophistic. He has published books on Lucian and he is the co-editor of Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Poseidippus (2004), Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic (2007), and Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (2010).Silvio Bar, Dr. phil. (2008) in Classics, University of Zurich, is a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich. His research focuses, inter alia, on Greek epic poetry of the imperial period. He has co-edited (together with Manuel Baumbach) Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic (2007), and is currently writing a book-length study on the Greek hero Herakles.Contributors: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Silvio Bar, Manuel Baumbach, Anton Bierl, Peter Bing, Ewen Bowie, Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Nicola Dummler, Ulrich Eigler, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Regina Hoschele, Richard Hunter, Jacqueline Klooster, Martin Korenjak, Peter Kuhlmann, Christine Luz, Virgilio Masciadri, Ivana Petrovic, Thomas A. Schmitz, Peter Stotz, Stefan Tilg, Vincent Tomasso, and Gail Trimble.