Hidden Presences: Monuments, Gravesites, and Corpses in Greek Funerary EpigramHidden Presences explores the inheritances of Hellenistic literary epigram from the sepulchral sub-genre of inscribed epigram. Divorced from the stone and the burial site, the literary form enjoys a new freedom, but exhibits this independence in a deliberate but creative use of out-of-date themes (notably roadside placement of the monument), subversive use of the inscribed epigrams' attempt to betray the "hidden presence" of the deceased, and exploitation of sepulchral conceits surrounding cenotaph. Indeed, this study shows not only that the fourth- and third-century poets at the headwaters of the literary tradition were interested in inscriptional precedents, but also that this interest was exercised down to the time of the epigrammatist Meleager. The poets within the variative community of literary epigram therefore carry on a literary conversation not simply between themselves, but between themselves and the inscribed tradition, and among themselves about the inscribed tradition. |
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... gram , " though it may also intend to distance itself from Meleagrian poetry . My own understanding is that the term does refer to ... grams through the fourth century . At the same time , it is more rigorous in its criteria for the tag ...
... gram , " though it may also intend to distance itself from Meleagrian poetry . My own understanding is that the term does refer to ... grams through the fourth century . At the same time , it is more rigorous in its criteria for the tag ...
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... grams is clearly present in the following : CEG 145 ( = GV - I 73 ) c . 600 , Corcyra ; CEG 143 ( = ; GV - I 42 ) and CEG 139 ( = GV - I 165 ) c . 500 , Troezen ; and CEG 459 , c . 600-575 , Rhodes . Examples can be multiplied by the ...
... grams is clearly present in the following : CEG 145 ( = GV - I 73 ) c . 600 , Corcyra ; CEG 143 ( = ; GV - I 42 ) and CEG 139 ( = GV - I 165 ) c . 500 , Troezen ; and CEG 459 , c . 600-575 , Rhodes . Examples can be multiplied by the ...
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... grams from the archaic period through second century B.C. In addition to the two discussed above2 , there is only ... gram obliquely addresses the death at sea not of the person on whose stone the poem is inscribed , but of her son ...
... grams from the archaic period through second century B.C. In addition to the two discussed above2 , there is only ... gram obliquely addresses the death at sea not of the person on whose stone the poem is inscribed , but of her son ...
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