Research Catalog

Title

Greek epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine Era / edited by Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Kanellou, Maria
• Petrovic, Ivana
• Carey, Christopher (Classicist)

Description

xx, 438 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest Greek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound interest on Latin literature, and it continues to inspire and influence modern translations and imitations. After a long period of neglect, research on epigram has surged during recent decades, and this volume draws on the fruits of that renewed scholarly engagement. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors or anthologies, but with the evolution of particular subgenres over time, and provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram of the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods.0Individual chapters offer insights into a variety of topics, from explorations of the dynamic interactions between poets and their predecessors and contemporaries, and of the relationship between epigram and its socio-political, cultural, and literary background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE, to its interaction with its origins, inscribed epigram more generally, other literary genres, the visual arts, and Latin poetry, as well as the process of editing and compilation which generated the collections which survived into the modern world. Through the medium of individual studies the volume as a whole seeks to offer a sense of this vibrant and dynamic poetic form and its world which will be of value to scholars and students of Greek epigram and classical literature more broadly.

Subjects

• Epigrams, Greek
• Epigrams, Greek > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-395) and indexes.

Call Number

JFE 19-7709

ISBN

• 9780198836827
• 0198836821

LCCN

2018955535

OCLC

1048935441

Title

Greek epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine Era / edited by Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-395) and indexes.

Added Author

Kanellou, Maria, editor.

Petrovic, Ivana, editor.

Carey, Christopher (Classicist), editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7709