Callimachus and Miletus: a case of eulogistic propaganda?

Aevum Antiquum, 2020

Harder This paper offers bi-directional readings of the intertextual allusions between Apol-lonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Argonautic stories in the Aetia. It argues that the allusions represent direct confrontations between Callimachus' οὐχ ἓν ἄεισμα διηνεκές (aet. fr. 1, 3 Harder) and Apollonius' ὅσσα τ᾿ ἔρεξαν (Ap. Rh. I 21) narrative strategies within the same 'Callimachean' aesthetic framework. On the basis of the conclusion of my 2014 article, Anchored in Time: the date in Apollonius' Ar-gonautica, which uses the poem's astronomical references to argue for 238 BC as the terminus post quem for the epic, these readings assume that the Aetia is the prior work and that the Argonautica is the alluding text. Stephen Hinds' example of the metapoetic dialogue between Ovid and Vergil in Allusion and Intertext provides the theoretical model for the kind of bi-directional readings offered here. This paper explores the programmatic and metapoetic functions that the Argonautic myth has within Aetia, reorienting Callimachus' allusions toward the archaic epic tradition and contextualizing the 'Argonautica' in the Aetia within longstanding metaphorical discourses of 'the ship of poetry' and 'the ship of state'. This analysis concentrates on the beginning of the Anaphe-aetion (frr. 7c-8 Harder) and the Cyzicus-aetion (frr. 108-109a Harder).

This paper aims to illustrate the significance of contemporary religious practices for Callimachus' poetry, by focusing on his Hymn to Apollo and reading it in the context of metrical and prose sacred regulations such as programmata, oracular responses, the Cyrenaean purity regulation, and the inscriptional hymns of Isyllus and Philodamos from Scarpheia. Each of these classes of text resonates in Callimachus' poetry and contributes to its rich tapestry of influences and allusions. Finally, the paper considers the Cyrenaean context of Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo as well as the connection of Callimachus' family to the cult of Apollo in Cyrene, arguing that the personal relationship Callimachus forges with Apollo in this hymn resembles the subscriptions accompanying hymns inscribed in sanctuaries. These texts also record divine approbation of the poets and list and various honors the sanctuaries have bestowed on them.

Eikasmos, 2016

This article on Callimachus' reception during Byzantium challenges how scholars have constructed Callimachus from Byzantine sources by highlighting the difficulty of extracting Callimachus from his Byzantine context. In this article, I focus on the uses made of him by the twelfth scholar and metropolitan of Athens, Michael Choniates, the last known person to have possessed a copy of Callimachus' Aetia and Hecale.

An overhauled version of this paper (Distinctive Readings. Callimachus and Roman Knights') will appear in Philologia antiqua 9 (2016).

Classical World, 2013

Alexandrea ad Aegyptvm: the legacy of multiculturalismo in antiquity, 2013

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2012

Introduction 1. Literary quarrels 2. Performing the text 3. Changing places 4. In my end is my beginning Conclusions Appendix: the Aetia.