Miscellaneous Articles & Reviews

American Journal of Philology (AJP)
Volume 127, Number 3 (Whole Number 507), Fall 2006
Sider, David.
The New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy

Abstract:
In this paper I question the validity of the notion of "historical elegy" as a genre of classical Greek elegy. My approach is to view elegy as a whole in order to understand first how the Greeks themselves used the term "elegy" and then what we can learn of the contents of other classical elegies that touched upon historical subjects. I show that the Greeks never attached any descriptive label to "elegy," whether "historical" or otherwise, and that an elegy that included historical matters could also incorporate myth and look forward to the future, while including as well themes now thought of as sympotic.

MNEMOSYNE Volume 59, Number 2, 2006
Miniature Codices from Kellis
pp. 226-258(33)
Authors: Hope, Colin A.; Worp, K.A.

PHOENIX VOLUME LIX NO. 1 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2005
REVIEW of
Susan A. Stephens: Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria
James J. Clauss 161


PHOENIX VOLUME LIX NO. 3–4 FALL-WINTER/AUTOMNE-HIVER 2005 forthcoming
REVIEW of
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, and Manuel Baumbach (eds.):
Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309)
Thomas Schmidt 387

The Classical Review, Volume 56, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 217-218
REVIEW of
Gonis (N.), Obbink (D.), Parsons (P.J.) (edd.) The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXVIII . (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 88.) Pp. xii + 184, colour pls. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2003. Cased. ISBN: 0-85698-142-71.
M.W. HASLAM