Research Catalog

Title

Hidden presences : monuments, gravesites, and corpses in Greek funerary epigram / Jon Steffen Bruss.

Author

Bruss, Jon Steffen.

Publication

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2005.

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Details

Description

ix, 201 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

'Hidden Presences' explores the inheritances of Hellenistic literary epigram from the sepulchral sub-genre of inscribed epigrams.

Series Statement

Hellenistica Groningana ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Hellenistica Groningana ; v. 10.

Subject

• Epigrams, Greek > History and criticism
• Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > Greece
• Sepulchral monuments > Greece
• Death in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Thesis (note)

• Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Minnesota, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-187) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. [actual symbol not reproducible] in inscribed epigrams -- Ch. 3. The roadside monument in inscribed epigrams -- Ch. 4. The roadway in literary funerary epigram of the Hellenistic age -- Ch. 5. Archaeologically recovered epigrams for Cenotaphs -- Ch. 6. Hidden absences : literary epigrams for Cenotaphs I -- Ch. 7. Revealed absences : literary epigrams for Cenotaphs II -- Ch. 8. Hidden presences : literary epigrams for Cenotaphs III -- Ch. 9. Conclusion -- App. A. GV-I 1150 and 1151 -- App. B. The epigrammatists' dates.

ISBN

9042916419 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005047439

OCLC

• 58919466
• SCSB-11097760

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library