Dr Matthew Hosty: List of publications

Showing 1 to 4 of 4 publications
Curation
To remove a selected option, use arrow keys to highlight the option and use "Backspace" to remove the highlighted option.

Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice): Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

November 2019
|
Book

“But who art thou?”: Callimachus and the unsatisfactory epitaph

June 2019
|
Journal article
|
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Callimachus’ Anth.Pal. 7.522, by withholding from the passer-by any effective information about the dead, is consistent with the bleak sequence 517-525, whose theme is the vacuity of any afterlife.

Schrödinger's Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia

October 2017
|
Journal article
|
Journal of Hellenic Studies
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2017. This article argues that the ambiguity over whether certain characters are alive or dead during the second half of the Batrachomyomachia is not only deliberate, as previous scholars have suggested, but part of a complex intertextual relationship with Iliad 21 and Achilles' battle in the Scamander. It concludes by suggesting that the poet's decision to stage this new battle in a μνη, a pool or pond, helps to articulate the ideas of life, death and resurrection which characterize this section of the poem.

The Mice of Ithaca: Homeric Models in the Batrachomyomachia

January 2014
|
Journal article
|
MNEMOSYNE