Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Scholars of Greek and Latin literature synthesize recent scholarship on the classical genre during the Hellenistic period, looking at models and form, poetics, genre, epigrams and their intertexts, and reception from classical to modern times. The Philip, of course, is not Alexander's father, who lived before the Hellenistic period even began, but a Roman poet apparently active in the court of Caligula. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Peter Bing, Ph.D. (1981) in Classics, University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry, including The Well-Read Muse (Gottingen, 1988) and The Marble and the Scroll (Ann Arbor, 2007). Jon Steffen Bruss, Ph.D. (2000) in Classics, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at The University of the South. His several publications on Hellenistic poetry include a study on funerary epigram, Hidden Presences (Leuven, 2005).