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Hellenistic Epigrams in Context
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Description

Drawing upon ancient sources as well as recent papyrological discoveries, this text reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. The final chapter reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's "Garland", an ancient anthology of Hellenistic epigrams. Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also collected in books intended for private reading. Brief and concise, concerned with the personal and the particular, the epigram emerged in the Hellenistic period as a sophisticated literary form that evinces the period's aesthetic preference for the miniature, the intricate, and the fragmented.

Author Biography:

Kathryn J. Gutzwiller is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Studies in the Hellenistic Epyllion (1981) and Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre (1991).
Release date Australia
March 5th, 1998
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
6 tables
Pages
420
Dimensions
152x229x33
ISBN-13
9780520208575
Product ID
4781439

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