Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin LiteraturePeter 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 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
Aeneas Aeneid Aeschines Alexander amphictionic amphictiony ancient Ancient Greece Antigonus Antigonus of Carystus antiquity Archaic Aristotle Aristotle’s artists Athenian Athens audience Augustan Augustus authors biography bronze Cambridge Chaniotis Classical commemoration context Croesus culture decree dedications dedicatory Delphi Demosthenes Diogenes Laertius discussion documents early elegiac elegists elegy epigram epigraphic epigraphic habit epinician epitaph Ergoteles evidence example FGrH Forum fourth century funerary genre Greece Greek Haake Hellenistic Herodotus historians historiography honour inscribed epigrams inscriptions inventories kleos Knoepfler Latin Leiden literary literature Livy lyric material memory Menedemus monuments narrative ŒÆd ôHí Olympia orators Ovid Oxford Pausanias Petrovic philosophers Pindar Plutarch poem poetic poetry poets political Polybius Propertius psephisma psephismata quoted record reference Rhodes Roman Rome sanctuary Simonides Socrates song sources Spartan statue stele suggests temple Theopompus Thucydides tomb tradition trans treaty verse victory votives words