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Author : Christoph W. Clairmont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Gravestone and Epigram written by Christoph W. Clairmont and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Cut These Words into My Stone written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
Author : Francis Cairns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739511
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Epigram written by Francis Cairns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts within which Hellenistic epigrams were composed. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations of them proposed. Throughout, the question is asked whether epigrams are literary jeux d'esprit (as is often assumed without proper discussion) or whether they relate to real people and real events and have a function in the real world. That function may be epigraphic, for example an epigram can be the epitymbion for inscription at someone's grave, or the anathematikon for inscription on or beside a dedicated object, or a picture-label - an ekphrasis to accompany a painting or mosaic.
Author : Christos Tsagalis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110211653
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Inscribing Sorrow written by Christos Tsagalis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth-century Attic grave epigrams reflect a transitional phase in the evolution of the genre of epigram. They testify to a shift of interest towards social issues such as the family, the deceased’s age and profession. In a turbulent period of restlessness and uncertainty that followed the devastating Peloponnesian war, the commemoration of the departed in private monuments became an effective mechanism of displaying publicly a new set of social concerns. It is within these contexts that special emphasis has been put on the composition of sepulchral epigrams, their gradual autonomization and sophistication. This book explores this decisive phase in the evolution of the epigram by reconstructing as many ancient contexts as possible on the one hand, and studying sepulchral epigrams as a poetic art on the other.
Author : Marta González González
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062448
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece written by Marta González González and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a wide selection of Greek funerary epigrams from the 6th to 4th centuries BC, this volume considers their historical and chronological contexts to draw out information about the society that created them. Using both Hansen's corpus of epigrams and wider examples, it gives priority to those cases where the whole monument ensemble is preserved, both text and image, enabling a much better understanding of the significance of the texts. A thematic structure within a broader chronological framework provides a valuable lens on the epigrams, allowing readers to compare particular types across the time period. After introducing the funerary landscape in which the selected epigrams fit, González briefly considers the literary form of epigrams as a foil for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters focus on epitaphs of individuals in the most significant stages of life, where gender differences are most marked: themes include untimely death, women and wives, friendship, piety and non-kin love. All epigrams are offered in Greek, followed by an English translation. The analysis focuses on the literary aspects of the epigrams, as well as on the information they provide about both society and religion of ancient Greece.
Author : Aubrey Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book English Epigrams and Epitaphs written by Aubrey Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martial
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Epigrams from Martial written by Martial and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph W. Clairmont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Classical Attic Tombstones: Introductory vol. ; Vol. I, Catalogue, 1-23, 100-358, 0.500-1.999 ; Vol. II, Catalogue, 2.000-2.999 ; Vol. III, Catalogue, 3.000-3.999 ; Vol. IV, Catalogue, 4.000-7.330 ; Vol. V, Prosopography ; Vol. VI, Indexes ; Plate volume written by Christoph W. Clairmont and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Derderian
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047400453
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Leaving Words to Remember written by Katharine Derderian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the influence of literacy on the development of mourning in ancient Greece. Considered against the oral tradition of Homeric lament, archaic and classical memorials are shown to evolve into an increasingly civic and historical medium of memory.
Author : John William Mackail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology written by John William Mackail and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christer Henriksén
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118841727
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Epigram written by Christer Henriksén and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary history unlike any other. This book examines the entire history of the epigram, from its beginnings as a purely epigraphic phenomenon in the Greek world, where it moved from being just a note attached to physical objects to an actual literary form of expression, to its zenith in late 1st century Rome, and further through a period of stagnation up to its last blooming, just before the beginning of the Dark Ages. A Companion to Ancient Epigram offers the first ever full-scale treatment of the genre from a broad international perspective. The book is divided into six parts, the first of which covers certain typical characteristics of the genre, examines aspects that are central to our understanding of epigram, and discusses its relation to other literary genres. The subsequent four parts present a diachronic history of epigram, from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, and Latin and Greek epigrams at Rome, all the way up to late antiquity, with a concluding section looking at the heritage of ancient epigram from the Middle Ages up to modern times. Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the epigram The first single-volume book to examine the entire history of the genre Scholarly interest in Greek and Roman epigram has steadily increased over the past fifty years Looks at not only the origins of the epigram but at the later literary tradition A Companion to Ancient Epigram will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, world literature, and ancient and general history. It will also be an excellent addition to the shelf of any public and university library.
Author : Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198150695
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book "Reading" Greek Death written by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of in-depth studies of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece, from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. Drawing on a wide range of evidence--from literary texts, to inscriptions, to images in art--Sourvinou-Inwood sheds light on many key, still problematic, aspects of Greek life, myth, and literature. She also looks at the problem of "reading" this material within the context of our own culturally-determined beliefs.
Author : Francis Cairns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107168503
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Epigrams written by Francis Cairns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
Author : Elena Walter-Karydi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110716348
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC) written by Elena Walter-Karydi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views. The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.
Author : John Stambaugh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294902
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sarapis under the Early Ptolemies written by John Stambaugh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HELLENISTIC ICONOGRAPHY OF SARAPIS -- SARAPIS AND PLUTO -- SARAPIS AND OSIRIS -- SARAPIS AND DIONYSUS -- SARAPIS AND THE APIS BULL -- SARAPIS AND APIS THE KING -- SARAPIS AND ASCLEPIUS -- LATER HELLENISTIC IDENTIFICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Plates I-IV.
Author : Michael Champion
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135180331X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World written by Michael Champion and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally, and in a similar way, it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks, as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity, religious practices and rituals, and the artistic, literary and philosophical life of the polis.
Author : A.J. Graham
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900435106X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Collected Papers on Greek Colonization written by A.J. Graham and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time together in one volume all the papers on Greek colonization published by A. J. Graham over the last forty years. Some of these appeared in publications difficult of access. They will all now be widely available, and thus complement the author's Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece and his two chapters on the subject in Cambridge Ancient History III.3, second edition. In addition the volume contains one new paper, not previously published, entitled 'Thasian Controversies' . The published papers are reproduced unchanged, except for the correction of misprints, and the original page-numbering is indicated. All the original figures and illustrations are included. There is a comprehensive, analytical, index.
