Greek Epitaphic Poetry
A Selection
Part of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Date Published: January 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108926041
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Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
Read more- The Commentary provides students with extensive help in understanding the Greek
- Enables a full understanding of the poems by considering them from literary, historical and archaeological perspectives
- Helps students and other readers new to the poems by focusing on those which are well preserved and therefore properly legible
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- Date Published: January 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108926041
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Funerary verse-inscriptions
2. The style of Greek epitaphic verse
3. Who wrote Greek verse-inscriptions?
4. Ideas of death in Greek verse-inscriptions
5. About this edition
Source Text: Greek Epitaphic Poetry. A Selection
Editorial Matter: Commentary.
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