ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK EPIGRAM by Manuel Baumbach (Editor), Andrej Petrovic (Editor), Ivana Petrovic (Editor) ( 9780521118057 )

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Title:

ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK EPIGRAM

By:

Manuel Baumbach (Editor), Andrej Petrovic (Editor), Ivana Petrovic (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521118050

ISBN 13:

9780521118057

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 December, 2010

Pages:

454

Description:

This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic achievement.

Synopsis:

With contributions written by leading experts in the field, this volume explores the dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers. The authors examine questions surrounding the identity of the speakers and the addressees. They also discuss the spatial, religious, historical and political contexts of epigram, as well as aspects of intertextuality, poetic variation and the creation of epigrammatic sub-genres. Collectively the volume demonstrates that the dominant view of epigram as a genre that became literary and artistic only in the Hellenistic period has to be revised. Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams did not simply serve the objects they describe but also demonstrate a high degree of aesthetic and literary achievement. This volume breaks new ground in the study of the genre and is important for scholars of classics, archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology.

Illustrations:

9 b/w illus.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

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