Research Catalog

Title

Hellenistic epigrams : a selection / edited by Alexander Sens.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Sens, Alexander

Description

xii, 304 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Greek "literary" epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include a variety of subtypes and served as a vehicle for Hellenistic poets to experiment with themes and motifs from other genres. Epigram thrived into the Imperial and Byzantine periods and exerted a great influence on Latin poetry; its afterlife in other literatures continues to the present day. The modern study of Hellenistic epigram is built on the philological foundations of A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page's edition of epigrams which seem to have been collected in antiquity in the anthologies of Meleager (HE) and Philip (GPh). Since the publication of those works, new scholarly attitudes and approaches have helped transform our understanding of the form and its literary and cultural context, as have papyrological discoveries; epigrams are better appreciated as works of literature, as are the ancient collections in which they were assembled. Readers approaching the form for the first time in Greek, however, still have relatively few resources for accessing a range of poems by multiple early writers"--

Series Statement

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Uniform Title

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Subject

• Epigrams, Greek
• Epigrams, Greek > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JFD 21-627

ISBN

• 9780521849555
• 0521849551
• 9780521614818
• 0521614813
• 9781139024839 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020021824

OCLC

1154813498

Title

Hellenistic epigrams : a selection / edited by Alexander Sens.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Sens, Alexander, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Sens, Alexander, 1964- Hellenistic epigrams 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781139024839 (DLC) 2020021825

Research Call Number

JFD 21-627