Professor Gregory Hutchinson: List of publications
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Polybius book 8
July 2025
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Hellenistic literature and Latin literature: towards totality
November 2024
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Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception
Peter Parsons--qualche appunto
November 2023
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Journal article
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Eikasmos
Absent friends: why is friendship less important in tragedy than in the Iliad?
January 2023
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Chapter
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'Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Lliterature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael Edwards
The first person in Cicero's Letters to Atticus
December 2022
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Journal article
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Hermathena
Rock music
May 2022
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Journal article
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Antigone
L'apertura
February 2021
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Journal article
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Rationes Rerum
The act of opening a box, door, etc. was important to ancient practical life; poetry exploits it forcefully, and with rich psychological and theological significance. Spring is often connected with opening (so Alcaeus, Pindar, Ovid). Scenes of opening, and not opening, are important in the Odyssey and Parmenides, in drama (Agamemnon, Ajax, Medea, Heracles, Ion, Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, Curculio), in Hellenistic poetry (Apollonius, Theocritus, Grenfell Fragment), and in Roman poetry (Odes, Amores, Aeneid). Chests and boxes can contain memories and link to the opening of emotions; drama interests itself in revealing closed thoughts, secrets, and events. Door-scenes dramatize the conflict of wills in plays and poems on love. The drastic interventions of the gods are manifested and expressed through opening.
Space and text worlds in Apollonius
June 2020
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Journal article
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Trends in Classics
The paper looks not so much at geographical space or at the standard antithesis of “space” and “place,” but at the fluctuating relationships of space and mind. Various contrasts of inside and outside are considered (bodies, ships, houses), in connection with characters’ experience of space and its meaning. Werth’s idea of text worlds is then considered: the shifting worlds presented in a text, often as perceived or constructed by characters. This approach is given more substance by thinking about space; spatial approaches are given more finesse by thinking about text worlds. The marriage of approaches works happily for similes, for characters’ imaginings, for the physical spaces they structure and manage. It suits the ever-shifting Argonautica well.
FFR
Motion in Classical Literature
May 2020
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Book
Anacreon on stage? A note on P. Oxy. LXXXIV 5410
January 2020
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Gedichte auf Stein und Papyrus lesen: Zwei Arten der Lektüreerfahrung
October 2019
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Chapter
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Antike Texte und ihre Materialität. Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
On Not Being Beautiful
November 2018
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Complex Inferiorities
<p>‘x is more beautiful than y’ sounds a standard thing to say in Greek and Latin literature; but it raises intricate and interesting issues, not least from the standpoint of y. This chapter draws on symbolic logic to compare the relation between assessing superiority or inferiority in beauty and making choices in love in both Greek and Latin literature. The various dynamics, logics, and rhetorics of desire in the light of inferiority and superiority are subjected to close scrutiny, paving the way for a discussion that addresses not only the complex scenarios that unfold here (paying special attention to the various ways in which the amorous hierarchy is set in relation to other hierarchies) but also the intriguing fact that such questions of relative inferiority and superiority in erotic matters seem to pervade Greek literature more extensively and differently than Latin.</p>
Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose
July 2018
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Book
Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose (Oxford, 2018; pp. 339); see https://global.oup.com/academic/product/plutarchs-rhythmic-prose- 9780198821717?prevSortField=9&start;=20&q;=Hutchinson&prevNumResPerPage;=20〈 =en&cc;=gb see also the free companion website http://www.oup.com/hutchinson for readings of the passages analysed, and for corrigenda.
'Modernism', 'postmodernism', and the death of the stanza
June 2018
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Journal article
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Aitia : Regards sur la Culture Hellénistique au XXIe Siècle
Lyric after Pindar should be seen not as declining and petering out, but as developing in ways which radically question or play with the fundamentals of the genre (or “super-genre”). The stanza is a crucial feature of lyric up to Pindar, especially when seen textually; “modernist” expansion into huge astrophic entities (Timotheus, etc.) and “postmodern” reduction into stichic lines (Callimachus, etc.) both involve radical rethinking of the super-genre, and one is a reaction to the other. However, the most innovative postmodernists are the poets somewhat earlier than Callimachus and Theocritus (Simmias, Philicus, etc.); Callimachus and Theocritus continue their ideas with new twists and new point. And the stanza is not really dead: within Timotheus’ and Callimachus’ poems stanza-like structures are built up. The late-classical and Hellenistic development of lyric is as dynamic and thought-provoking as that of sculpture.
Motion in Grattius
March 2018
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Chapter
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Grattius Hunting an Augustan Poet
This volume is the first book-length study of Grattius in English or any other language and sets out to rehabilitate the neglected poet by making him and his work accessible to a wide audience.
History
What is a setting?
March 2018
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Chapter
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Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece
On not being beautiful
January 2018
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Chapter
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Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
‘x is more beautiful than y’ sounds a standard thing to say in Greek and Latin literature; but it raises intricate and interesting issues, not least from the standpoint of y. This chapter draws on symbolic logic to compare the relation between assessing superiority or inferiority in beauty and making choices in love in both Greek and Latin literature. The various dynamics, logics, and rhetorics of desire in the light of inferiority and superiority are subjected to close scrutiny, paving the way for a discussion that addresses not only the complex scenarios that unfold here (paying special attention to the various ways in which the amorous hierarchy is set in relation to other hierarchies) but also the intriguing fact that such questions of relative inferiority and superiority in erotic matters seem to pervade Greek literature more extensively and differently than Latin.
Repetition, range, and attention--the Iliad
October 2017
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Chapter
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The Winnowing Oar--New Perspectives in Homeric Studies
Repetition, range, and attention: The Iliad
October 2017
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Chapter
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The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies
Some new and old light on the reasons for Ovid's exile
July 2017
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
The most common view now on the reasons for Ovid’s exile is that, of the two which he alleges, the unknown error is the real one, the carmen not real. The argument is that the Ars Amatoria was published in or before AD 2 (the usual view), but Ovid was exiled in AD 8 (the universal view). Why a reaction in 8, not at the time? A new inscription provides the answer.
Muße ohne Müßiggang: Strukturen, Räume und das Ich bei Cicero
October 2016
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Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur. Mit einem Ausblick in andere Gattungen.
Hierarchy and symposiastic poetry, Greek and Latin
September 2016
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Chapter
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The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposium
Gods wise and foolish: Euripides and Greek literature from Homer to Plutarch
March 2016
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Wisdom and Folly in Euripides
Pentameters
January 2016
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Chapter
APPIAN THE ARTIST: RHYTHMIC PROSE AND ITS LITERARY IMPLICATIONS
December 2015
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Journal article
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CLASSICAL QUARTERLY
Space in the Aeneid
January 2015
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Chapter
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Virgilian Studies. A Miscellany Dedicated to the Memory of Mario Geymonat
Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose
January 2014
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Conference paper
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HELLENISTIC STUDIES AT A CROSSROADS: EXPLORING TEXTS, CONTEXTS AND METATEXTS
Genre and super-genre
March 2013
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Chapter
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Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations
Greek to Latin
January 2013
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Book
Booking lovers: desire and design in Catullus
January 2012
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Perspectives and Contexts in the Poetry of Catullus
Images and worlds in epinician poetry
January 2012
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Reading the Victory Ode
Space and text worlds
January 2012
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to Apollonius
House politics and city politics in aristophanes
May 2011
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Journal article
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Classical Quarterly
Morality and time in fifth- and fourth-century Greek literature
January 2011
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Journal article
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Eikasmos: quaderni bolognesi di filologia classica
Politics and the sublime in the Panegyricus
January 2011
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Chapter
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Pliny’s Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World
Telling tales: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Callimachus
January 2011
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Chapter
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Culture in Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons
Deflected addresses: Apostrophe and space (Sophocles, Aeschines, Plautus, Cicero, Virgil and others)
May 2010
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Journal article
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Classical Quarterly
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS: DIDACTIC POETRY AND DIDACTIC PROSE
May 2009
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Journal article
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CLASSICAL QUART
'GEORGICS', COLUMELLA, CICERO, VIRGIL, POEM
Talking Books
August 2008
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Book
Talking Books
January 2008
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Book
The Monster and the Monologue: Polyphemus from Homer to Ovid
October 2007
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Chapter
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Hesperos
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
1 Down among the Documents: Criticism and Papyrus Letters
June 2007
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Ancient Letters
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 3602 Creative and Professional Writing, 4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Propertius: Elegies Book IV
January 2006
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Book
Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
November 2005
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Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
<p>This chapter presents a line from Pope’s An Essay on Man. It specifically reuses the spider that ‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line’ as an image to introduce a way of looking at the writing in Cicero’s oratory. The chapter also focuses on one speech, the Pro S. Roscio, which receives an unusual amount of comment in Cicero’s work from the forties. The discussion of passages may show, perhaps more than has been done before, how much is involved in reading Cicero. The greatest hope is that it may encourage people to read Cicero with no less intensity and sophistication than Latin poetry.</p>
The Catullan Corpus, Greek epigram, and the poetry of objects
January 2003
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Journal article
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CLASSICAL QUARTERLY
The publication and individuality of Horace's 'Odes' Books 1-3
