Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era

by Kanellou, Maria; Petrovic, Ivana; Carey, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780198836827
• ISBN10: 0198836821
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-06-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Maria Kanellou, Research Fellow, Academy of Athens,Ivana Petrovic, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics, University of Virginia,Chris Carey, Emeritus Professor of Greek, UCL

Maria Kanellou was born in Athens and studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at UCL. She is currently Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and has previously worked at UCL, KCL, the University of Kent, and OUC. She has co-organized various international conferences focusing on Greek epigram and Theocritus and is currently working on the publication of the proceedings; her doctoral thesis, which offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of erotic epigram, is also under contract for publication by OUP.

Ivana Petrovic was born in Belgrade and studied at Belgrade University, Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg, and Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen. She has taught at Heidelberg, Giessen, and, most recently, at Durham University, and is now Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests embrace ancient Greek literature, religion, and cultural history, and also South-Slavic traditional oral poetry, with a particular focus on the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious, and social contexts.

Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and has also taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law and is currently working on a commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction, Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey
Part 1: Encountering Epigram
2. Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram, Joseph Day
3. Lessons in Reading and Ideology: On Greek Epigrams in Private Compilations of the Hellenistic Age, Andrej Petrovic
4. A Garland of Freshly Grown Flowers: The Poetics of Editing in Philip's Stephanos, Regina Hoschele
5. Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, Kristoffel Demoen
Part 2: Imitation, Variation, Interaction
6. Miniaturization of Earlier Poetry in Greek Epigrams, Annette Harder
7. Variations on Simplicity: Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum in Philip's Garland, Charles S. Campbell
8. The Riddles of the Fourteenth Book of the Palatine Anthology: Hellenistic, Later Imperial, Early Byzantine, or Something More?, Simone Beta
Part 3: Writing Death
9. Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary?, Richard Hunter
10. Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness, Silvia Barbantani
11. Tears and Emotions in Greek Literary Epitaphs, Doris Meyer
12. Sea and Land: Dividing Sepulchral Epigram, Mike Tueller
Part 4: Gods, Religion, and Cult
13. Epigrammatic Variations/Debate on the Theme of Cybele's Music, Marco Fantuzzi
14. Dreadful Eros, Before and After Meleager, Kathryn Gutzwiller
Part 5: Praise and Blame
15. Mythological Burlesque and Satire in Greek Epigram - A Case Study: Zeus' Seduction of Danae, Maria Kanellou
16. Epigrams on the Persian Wars: An Example of Poetic Propaganda, Federica Giommoni
17. From Atop A Lofty Wall . . .': Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Literary Epigram, Joseph M. Romero
Part 6: Words and Images
18. Greek Skoptic Epigram, Ecphrasis, and the Visual Arts, Lucia Floridi
19. Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm: Palladas' Epigrams on Statues, Peter Bing
20. Art, Nature, Power: Garden Epigrams from Nero to Heraclius, Steven D. Smith
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index