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Peter Bing

Author of Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid (The New Ancient World)

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Includes the names: Peter Bing, Peter Michael Bing

Works by Peter Bing

Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid (The New Ancient World) (1991) — Editor — 50 copies

Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (2014) — Translator — 10 copies

Well-read Muse (Hypomnemata) (1988) 6 copies

Brill's companion to Hellenistic epigram (2007) — Editor — 6 copies

The Scroll and the Marble: Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry (2009) 6 copies

Callimachus' Hymn to Delos 1-99: Introduction and Commentary 1 copy

Associated Works

Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (1972) — Translator, some editions — 240 copies

The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (2005) — Contributor — 14 copies

Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald (1994) — Contributor — 7 copies

Ancient scholarship and grammar: archetypes, concepts and contexts (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies

Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies

Imitate Anacreon! Mimesis, Poiesis and the Poetic Inspiration in the Carmina Anacreontea (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies

Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy

Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception (2012) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Bing, Peter
Birthdate: 1954
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Bowdoin College
University of Tubingen
University of Michigan
Occupations: Professor of Classics, Emory University
Relationships: Bing, Elisabeth (mother)

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Ralph Mark Rosen

Jon Steffen Bruss Editor

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Sulpicia Contributor

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Works: 6
Also by: 9
Members: 79
Popularity: #226,897
Rating: 4.1

ISBNs: 14

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