{"product_id":"the-scroll-and-the-marble-peter-bing-9780472116324","title":"The Scroll and the Marble: Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry","description":"\"One of the most prominent figures in American Hellenistic poetry scholarship, Peter Bing has long served as a model for acute criticism and careful reading. He has a marvelous ability to make readers rethink their preconceptions; his work is always beautifully argued and documented and his writing style is a pleasure to engage with.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University\u003cp\u003eWhile people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This was the first era in which poets consciously shaped their works with an eye toward publication and reception not just on the civic stage but in several media---in performance, on inscribed monuments, in scrolls. The essays in Peter Bing's collection explore how poetry accommodated various audiences and how these audiences in turn experienced the text in diverse ways. Over the years, Bing's essays have focused on certain Hellenistic authors and genres---particularly on Callimachus and Posidippus and on epigram. His themes, too, have been broadly consistent. Thus, although the essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Scroll and the Marble\u003c\/i\u003e span some twenty years, they offer a coherent vision of Hellenistic poetics as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Bing is Professor of Classics at Emory University and editor, most recently, of the \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Jon Steffen Bruss).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacket illustration: Film still from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures 1939. Courtesy of Sony Pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Bing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472116320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472116324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Peter Bing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086706028799,"sku":"9780472116324","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e1b6f66-2bcb-40b4-a125-eceec9db2f88.jpg?v=1769096105","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scroll-and-the-marble-peter-bing-9780472116324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}