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Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, 2019Chapter 2 argues that literary epigrams that represent the process of reading an inscription provide evidence for the reading of inscribed epigrams in pre-Hellenistic times.
Joseph W. Day
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Poets’ Corners in Greek Epigram Collections
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018Exploring the position and interaction of poets’ tombs within Greek epigram collections, this chapter illustrates how poetry books could function as imagined literary graveyards, through which readers were invited to stroll in their mind.
Regina Höschele
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A Strange Epigram and the Date of Hegesander
Trends in Classics, 2019This paper is on an epigram reported by Hegesander of Delphi (LGGA F 11), which was constituted exclusively of neologistic compounds. Its peculiarity, in attacking the hypocrisy of Cynics, is the complete disregard of any morphological rules as in no ...
D. Guasti
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Mythological Burlesque and Satire in Greek Epigram—A Case Study
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, 2019Chapter 15 acts as a connecting link between the last two parts, since, by taking as its case study Zeus’ love affair with Danae, it investigates the diachronic usage, in epigrams, of mythological burlesque for mockery turned against human and divine ...
Kanellou Maria
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Generic Ambiguity and “Tendentious” Humor in the Hellenistic Epigram
Arethusa, 2019:This article looks at a selection of Hellenistic epigrams (mostly by Callimachus), focusing on the way they produce humor through verbal ambiguity and subversion of the conventional form and meaning of epigrammatic topoi relating to religion, sexuality,
E. Bouchard
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