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Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems dated to the third and second centuries BCE: Aratus’s Phaenomena, Nicander’s Theriaca, Callimachus’s Aetia, Apollonius of Rhodes’s Argonautica, and Lycophron’s Alexandra. Situating these poetic works in their intellectual and literary milieu, Kathleen Kidder applies the philosophic concept of the criterion of truth, arguing that each… Read more

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Now Available Online | Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach, on the CHS website. The work is also available… Read more

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Now Available Online | Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou & Manuel Baumbach, on the CHS website. The work is also available… Read more