Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

ISBN-13: 9780199665747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 416 str.

Peter Liddel; Polly Low

Opis

Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature offers a broad set of perspectives on the diverse forms of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.
This collection of essays explores the various ways in which ancient authors used inscribed texts and documents. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres, such as oratory, philosophy, poetry, and historiography, discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. They deployed them as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, individual morality, and piety, and even to express moral views about the nature of epigraphy.

Recenzje

Peter Liddel and Polly Low have done us all a great service by assembling this extremely useful and well-produced volume of essays ... The volume should become the standard handbook on the subject, and one can only hope that it will be regularly updated. It is difficult to offer anything other than praise for this collection.

O autorze

Peter Liddel is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. Polly Low is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester.