Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

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Peter Philip Liddel, Polly Low
OUP Oxford, 26 set 2013 - 403 pagine
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.
 

Sommario

The Reception of Ancient Inscriptions
1
LITERARY EPIGRAPHY AND THE ANCIENT PAST
31
LITERARY EPIGRAPHY COMPLEMENTARITY AND COMPETITION
215
Inscriptions
387

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