TALKING BOOKS This page intentionally left blank Talking Books Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry G. O. HUTCHINSON 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With oYces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ß G.O. 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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN–13: 978–0–19–927941–8 1. Greek Poetry—History and criticism. 2. Latin poetry—History and criticism. I. Title. PA3092.H88 2008 881’.0109—dc22 2008004126 Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–927941–8 13579108642 In memoriam F. C. Downing soceri carissimi et M. Downing socrus carissimae This page intentionally left blank Preface This volume collects some recent pieces which concern books of poetry from the third century bc and the ‘long’ first century bc, and adds four new chapters. Of these the first is a relatively lengthy creation of context, by way of prologue, the last, by way of epilogue, a relatively brief attempt to assemble and advance some of the argument. An appendix has been affixed to chapter 9; the first part of that piece has been expanded. 40 per cent of the book is new. Various changes have been made in the rest; but there has been no systematic attempt to update since the original publications. The whole package, though dealing only with some authors and periods, aspires to broaden and deepen the study of poetry-books. The idea of such a volume was not mine, but Professor A. Barchi- esi’s; I am deeply grateful to him for his heart-warming encourage- ment. The articles had at any rate been written with connected lines of thought in mind. Though I have long been interested in poetic books (cf. Hutchinson (1984)), the papyrus of Posidippus engaged me in the subject afresh (cf. ch. 4). If other subjects come into some of the pieces, that is not altogether unfortunate: it is part of the point that this subject must be considered like and together with other critical questions. (‘Books’ in the title is accusative as well as nominative.) The conclusions suggested to particular problems do not matter so much as the general approach. The work is meant to encourage, among other things, the active study of Greek and Latin together, and involvement with actual ancient books—papyri—in considering books of poetry. The work has been written during a period encumbered with major administrative jobs in Faculty and College, and enlivened by the fourth book of Propertius. This may serve as an excuse for some of its shortcomings. Besides the many debts acknowledged in the text, I have further debts to Dr D. Colomo, Dr R. Daniel, Dr G. F. De Simone, Dr R. Dekker, Professor J. Diggle, Professor M. E´ tienne, Professor F. Ferrari, Professor K. J. Gutzwiller, Professor P. R. Hardie, Professor S. J. Harrison, Ms J. Himpson, Professor N. Holzberg, viii Preface Professor R. L. Hunter, Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Professor R. T. MacFarlane, Professor D. J. Mastronarde, Dr D. Obbink, Pro- fessor J. I. Porter, Dr F. Reiter, Professor D. Sider, Dr S. E. Snyder, Professor V. M. Strocka. I am obliged to the Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn, for permission to republish chapters 2, 4, and 9 (ori- ginal versions: Zeitschrift fu¨r Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003), 47–59; 138 (2002), 1–10; 155 (2006), 71–84); to the Cambridge University Press for permission to republish chapters 5, 6, and 7(Classical Quarterly 53 (2003), 206–21; 52 (2002), 517–37; S. J. Harrison (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge, 2007), 36–49); and to the Oxford University Press for permission to republish chapter 3 (M. J. Clarke, B. G. F. Currie, R. O. A. M. Lyne (edd.), Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin (Oxford 2006), 105–29). Hilary O’Shea and others at the Press have been kind and helpful as ever. Dr D. McCarthy and Dr K. M. Fearn have assisted indefatigably with production, and Ms S. Newton has copy-edited vigilantly and sympathetically. My wife and daughter have given cheerful support and have endured my cooking, jokes, and papyri with meritorious patience. Gregory Hutchinson Exeter College, Oxford September 2007 Contents List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xiii 1. Doing Things with Books 1 2. The Aetia: Callimachus’ Poem of Knowledge 42 Appendix: Catullus’ Callimachean Book and the Lock of Berenice 64 3. Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form 66 4. The New Posidippus and Latin Poetry 90 5. The Catullan Corpus, Greek Epigram, and the Poetry of Objects 109 6. The Publication and Individuality of Horace’s Odes Books 1–3 131 7. Horace and Archaic Greek Poetry 162 8. Ovid, Amores 3: The Book 177 9. The Metamorphosis of Metamorphosis: P. Oxy. 4711 and Ovid 200 Appendix: Metamorphoses 9 225 10. Structuring Instruction: Didactic Poetry and Didactic Prose 228 11. Books and Scales 251 Bibliography 267 Indexes 309 I. Index of Passages Discussed 309 II. General Index 320 This page intentionally left blank List of Illustrations The following gives the sources of the images in chapter 1, and some additional images of the same papyri or inscriptions: the aim is both to acknowledge permission and to enable the reader to view images independently. Fig. 1. P. Petrie 49b. Photograph: P. Petrie II pl. XVI. 6 Fig. 2. P. Mil. Vogl. 309, col. xiv. Photograph (infra red): Bastianini and Galazzi (2001), pl. XIV. By permission of LED. 6 Fig. 3. P. Ko¨ln 204. Photograph: <http://www.uni koeln.de/ phil fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie//Karte/V 204.html> accessed 30 Nov. 2007. By permission of the Institut fu¨r Altertumskunde, Cologne. See also P. Ko¨ln V pl. I. 8 Fig. 4. P. Berol. 9812 (BKT v.1.77 8). Photograph: Ebert (1974), pl. XIII b. By permission of the A¨gyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. 9 Fig. 5. P. Ko¨ln Inv. 21351 þ 21376 (P. Ko¨ln 429, 430). Photograph: <http://www.uni koeln.de/phil fak/ifa/NRWakademie/ papyrologie/Verstreutepub/index.html> accessed 30 Nov. 2007. By permission of the Institut fu¨r Altertumskunde, Cologne. See also Gronewald and Daniel (2005), 10. 9 Fig. 6. P. Berol. 9771 (BKT v.2.79 84). Photograph: Diggle (1970), pl. v. By permission of the Cambridge University Press. See also Schubart (1911), pl. 4b. 10 Fig. 7. P. Tebt. 1 recto col. ii. Photograph: <http://www. columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/search/> accessed 30 Nov. 2007; berkeley.apis.284. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. See also P. Tebt. I pl. I. 11 Fig. 8. P. Tebt. 2 frag. (a) verso. Photograph: <http://www.columbia. edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/search/> accessed 30 Nov. 2007; berkeley.apis.283, frame 1/3 verso. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 11 xii List of Illustrations Fig. 9. P. Ko¨ln 242, frr. a, b, c, d, j. Photograph: <http://www. uni koeln. de/phil fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Karte/ VI 242.html> accessed 30 Nov. 2007. By permission of the Institut fu¨r Altertumskunde, Cologne. See also P. Ko¨ln VI pll. XXII and XXIII. 13 Fig. 10. P. Hibeh 7. Photograph: P. Hibeh I pl. VII. 13 Fig. 11. P. Oxy. 3000. Photograph: <http://www. papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/> accessed 30 Nov. 2007. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Society. See also P. Oxy. XLII pl. II. 16 Fig. 12. P. Sorbonne inv. 2245A. Photograph: Gue´rard (1925), pl. V. 16 Fig. 13. P. Louvre E 7733 verso. By permission of the Muse´e du Louvre, de´partement des antiquite´se´gyptiennes. Photograph: Lasserre (1975). 18 Fig. 14. P. Tebt. 695. Photograph: <http://www.columbia.edu/ cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/search/> accessed 30 Nov. 2007, berkeley.apis.380. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 19 Fig. 15. CIL iv.1893 4. Drawing: CIL iv.2, pl. XXV.7. 23 Fig. 16. P. Qas.r Ibrıˆm inv. 78 3 11/1, with detail of col.