Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin <i>Epyllion</i> and Its Reception

Manuel Baumbach, Dr. phil. (1997) in Classics, University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Classics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His research focuses on Hellenistic Poetry and the Second Sophistic. He has published books on Lucian and he is the co-editor of "Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Poseidippus" (2004), "Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic" (2007), and "Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram" (2010). Silvio B r, Dr. phil. (2008) in Classics, University of Zurich, is a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich. His research focuses, inter alia, on Greek epic poetry of the imperial period. He has co-edited (together with Manuel Baumbach) "Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic" (2007), and is currently writing a book-length study on the Greek hero Herakles. Contributors: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Silvio B r, Manuel Baumbach, Anton Bierl, Peter Bing, Ewen Bowie, Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Nicola D mmler, Ulrich Eigler, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Regina H schele, Richard Hunter, Jacqueline Klooster, Martin Korenjak, Peter Kuhlmann, Christine Luz, Virgilio Masciadri, Ivana Petrovic, Thomas A. Schmitz, Peter Stotz, Stefan Tilg, Vincent Tomasso, and Gail Trimble.