Archaic and classical Greek epigram / edited by Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic
2010, 1st edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Previous owner's signature. Item #420469
ISBN: 9780521118057
Physical description; 439 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Archaic and classical Greek epigram: an introduction / Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic -- Part I. Contextualisation: [Section 1.] Speaking and reading: the dialogue between epigram and passer-by: 2. Speaker and addressee in early Greek epigram and lyric / Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. The passer-by in archaic and classical epigram / Michael A. Tueller; 4. Voice in sepulchral epigrams: some remarks on the use of first and second person in sepulchral epigrams and a comparison with lyric poetry / Gert Vestrheim; [Section 2.] Art and viewing: the spatial context: 5. Epigrams in archaic art: the 'Chest of Kypselos' / Barbara E. Borg; 6. The Callimachus monument on the Athenian Acropolis (CEG 256) and Athenian commemoration of the Persian Wars / Catherine M. Keesling; 7. 'Dialectics at a standstill': archaic kouroi-cum-epigram as I-Box / Katharina Lorenz; [Section 3.] Epigram and performance: the religious context: 8. Life in a line: a reading of dedicatory epigrams from the Archaic and Classical periods / William D. Furley; 9. Observations on the dedicatory and sepulchral epigrams and their early history / Catherine Trümpy; [Section 4.] Propaganda and memorial: the historical and political context: 10. Epigrams on the Persian Wars: monuments, memory and politics / Carolyn Higbie; 11. True lies of Athenian public epigrams / Andrej Petrovic; [Section 5.] Generic and literary contexts: the rise and reception of epigramatic subgenera: 12. Heroic epitaphs of the Classical age. the Aristotelian Peplos and beyond / Kathryn Gutzwiller; 13. The origin of epigrams on 'Speaking Objects' / Rudolf Wachter -- Part II. Literarization: From 'Stone to Book': [Section 1.] Losing context: intertextuality and poetic variation: 14. Language and interpretation in Greek epigram / Richard Hunter; 15. Typologies of variation on a theme in archaic and classical metrical inscriptions / Marco Fantuzzi; [Section 2.] Inventing contexts: ecphrasis and narration: 16. Epigram as narration: appendix: legends of verse inscriptions 750-400 BC / Ewen Bowie; 17. Ecphrasis in fits and starts?: down to 300 BC / Jon Steffen Bruss. Subjects; Epigrams, Greek History and criticism ; Congresses. Inscriptions, Greek. Sepulchral monuments.
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