Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Down to Philip
Biographical note
Peter Bing, Ph.D. (1981) in Classics, University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry, including The Well-Read Muse (Göttingen, 1988) and The Marble and the Scroll (Ann Arbor, 2007).
Jon Steffen Bruss, Ph.D. (2000) in Classics, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at The University of the South. His several publications on Hellenistic poetry include a study on funerary epigram, Hidden Presences (Leuven, 2005).
Jon Steffen Bruss, Ph.D. (2000) in Classics, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at The University of the South. His several publications on Hellenistic poetry include a study on funerary epigram, Hidden Presences (Leuven, 2005).
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All those interested in classical Greek poetry, the history of the book, the history of literature, Hellenistic culture and history, Western poetry, especially epigram, and classical philologists and epigraphists
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