09/03/2026
conferencia
The Threshold Once Kissed.
Reflections on a New Edition of Callimachus' Epigrams.
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
(The Ohio State University)
viernes 13 de marzo 17:00 hs.
Instituto de Filología Clásica
José Bonifacio 1337 - 5to piso
The publication in 2001 of a new collection of Hellenistic epigrams attributed to the 3 rd cent. BCE poet Posidippus of Pela reawakened a wide interest in these short poems. Epigrams are poems of usually two or four lines, sometimes more, typically in elegiac couplet. Many Alexandrian poets composed epigrams, among them the polymath Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court under the first three Ptolemies. Today slightly more than 60 of these epigrams survive; Susan Stephens (Stanford University) and Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (The Ohio State University) have recently produced a new edition and commentary of these poems with de Gruyter. The instantiation of this edition is the topic of the conference, along with a few early observations on the future scholarship potential of these poems, particularly in the study of Latin poetry.
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes es profesor de griego y latín en la Ohio State University, y profesor asociado externo de la Università di Roma Tre y de la Università di Piemonte Orientale Vercelli. Realizó su doctorado en la Universidad de California (1995). Sus áreas de interés son la poesía helenística y la literatura griega. Ha editado los volúmenes Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (2004), Brill’s Companion to Callimachus (2011), Homère Revisité: Parodie et humour dans les réécritures homériques (2011), Euphorion de Chalcis. Les Fragments (2012), The Door Ajar. False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art (2013), Hellenistic Literature and Culture. Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens (2024). Es autor de Polyeideia—The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (2002), Arion's Lyre. Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry (2010), Callimachus in Context. From Plato to the Augustan Poets (2012), The Laurel and the Olive. Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry (2024), Callimachus – The Epigrams (2025), así como de numerosos artículos sobre su especialidad.
