Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration

ISBN-13: 9781316617878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 534 str.

Francis Cairns

Opis

This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts of Hellenistic epigrams. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations proposed.

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Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. Introductory: Contexts and their Loss: 1. Audience context and circulation context; 2. Epigraphic context; 3. The state of the text; Part II. Afterlives: 4. Optimism; 5. Consolation; 6. Pessimism?; 7. Shipwrecks; Part III. Philosophical Matters: 8. Over-philosophical interpretations (Callimachus, Asclepiades, Posidippus); 9. Philosophical superficiality (Leonidas); 10. Meleager and philosophy; 11. Philodemus; Part IV. Temples and Shrines: 12. A shrine of the Great Mother; 13. Apollo's deer at Kourion; 14. Paphian Aphrodite; Part V. Literary Polemics: 15. Posidippus; 16. Asclepiades on Lyde; 17. Further Hellenistic literary programmes; 18. Antipater of Sidon; 19. Epigrams about Erinna; Part VI. Literary Polemics Continue: 20. Telchines and grammarians; 21. Polemic pro/anti epic?; Part VII. Poetry, Sex, the Countryside: 22. Poetry and sex; 23. Country matters; Part VIII. Medical Connections: 24. Medicine in non-epigrammatic Hellenistic poetry; 25. Medicine in epigram; Part IX. Epitaphs: Epigraphic or Epideictic?: 26. Death caused by wine; 27. Deaths while drunk; 28. Deaths of drunken old women; 29. Cenotaphic epitymbia; Part X. Local Interests: 30. Archaizing language: Anyte and Nicias; 31. Dialects; 32. Local customs: hair dedications; 33. Historical claims: the Thyreatis; Part XI. Speakers, Addressees, Antecedents: 34. Geese taken for swans; 35. Speakers and addressees in archaic inscribed epigrams; 36. Epitymbic speakers and addressees; 37. Unsafe assumptions of originality; 38. Over-interpretations of Hellenistic epigrams; Part XII. The Erotic: 39. Novelty in the erotic komos; 40. Legalism; 41. 'Enrichment' and emotion; 42. Cynical attitudes and mercenary motives; 43. Meleager and mosquitoes; Part XIII. Generic Innovation: 44. Implicit dialogue; 45. Explicit dialogue; 46. Initial generic deception; 47. Epigraphic genres in amatory epigrams; 48. Function as context; 49. Multiple addressees; Part XIV. Learning: 50. Philological; 51. Technical; 52. Metrical; 53. Mythography and local culture; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index anthologiae graecae; Index of personal names in epigrams; General index.