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  title info:
    title: Hellenistic epigrams
    sub title: a selection
  name:
    name part: Sens, Alexander
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: grc
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 304 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Greek "literary" epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include a variety of subtypes and served as a vehicle for Hellenistic poets to experiment with themes and motifs from other genres. Epigram thrived into the Imperial and Byzantine periods and exerted a great influence on Latin poetry. Its afterlife in other literatures continues to the present day. The modern study of Hellenistic epigram is built on the philological foundations of A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page's edition of epigrams which seem to have been collected in antiquity in the anthologies of Meleager (HE) and Philip (GPh). Since the publication of those works, new scholarly attitudes and approaches have helped transform our understanding of the form and its literary and cultural context, as have papyrological discoveries. Epigrams are better appreciated as works of literature, as are the ancient collections in which they were assembled. Readers approaching the form for the first time in Greek, however, still have relatively few resources for accessing a range of poems by multiple early writers.
  note: edited by Alexander Sens.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Epigrams, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Epigrams, Greek
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PA3123 .S46 2020
  classification: 888/.010208
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
  identifier: 9780521849555
  identifier: 0521849551
  identifier: 9781139024839
  identifier: 9780521614818
  identifier: 0521614813
  identifier: 2020021824
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200508
    record change date: 20210422111544.0
    record identifier: in00004405573