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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Greek epigram in the Roman Empire
    sub title: Martial's forgotten rivals
  name:
    name part: Nisbet, Gideon.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages)
  abstract: As the riches of the Greek Anthology indicate, classical and late antique epigram was predominantly written and read (and probably also performed) by Greeks, but modern ideas about the genre have largely been shaped by the poetry-books of the important Latin epigrammatist Martial. Martial's Romanised version of epigram borrows heavily and without acknowledgement from contemporary Greeks writing satirical (‘skoptic') epigrams. This book looks at this influential and culturally revealing sub-genre. Although it looks back to Old and New Comedy, skoptic epigram was essentially new; the book demonstrates that it reflects concerns characteristic of Greek intellectual and literary culture (paideia) under the Roman Empire — the so-called ‘Second Sophistic'. The mysterious ‘Loukillios' is skoptic epigram's first major poet, heavily influencing subsequent epigrammatists including Nikarkhos and (probably) the famous satirist Lucian; culturally Greek but with a Roman-influenced name, he is Martial's main literary model. As the book shows, Loukillian humour is frequently aggressive, enforcing appropriate models of cultural and gendered identity. Its misogyny now makes it a difficult read. But it also engages subversively with Roman hegemony: several extant poems satirise the Emperor Nero. Following Loukillios, poets less well represented in the Anthology — among them the punning Ammianos, the literary critic Pollianos, and Leonides (whose poems are simultaneously numerical puzzles) — take the sub-genre in new creative directions. The book also samples a range of occasional epigrammatists, including several politically important Romans (among them the Emperor Trajan) but also many unknowns; the brief conclusion emphasises skoptic epigram's radical inclusivity and subversive potential.
  table of contents: Introduction: 'Skoptic epigram' -- 1. Reading Skoptic epigram -- 2. Situating Skoptic epigram -- 3. Loukillios -- 4. Nikarkhos -- 5. Broken masks: Skoptic epigram's identity crisis -- 6. Political epigram? Loukillios and Nero.
  note: Gideon Nisbet.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Martial
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Martial
  subject:
    topic: Epigram
  subject:
    topic: Greek poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Satire, Greek
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Latin literature
    topic: Greek influences
  subject:
    topic: Épigramme
  subject:
    topic: Poésie grecque
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Satire grecque
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Littérature latine
    topic: Influence grecque
  subject:
    topic: Epigram
  subject:
    topic: Greek poetry
  subject:
    topic: Latin literature
    topic: Greek influences
  subject:
    topic: Satire, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures
  subject:
    topic: Languages & Literatures
  classification: PA3123 .N57 2003
  classification: 888.010209
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford classical monographs
  identifier: 9780191718366
  identifier: 019171836X
  identifier: 9780199263370
  identifier: 019926337X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: LGG
    record creation date: 030509
    record change date: 20260318175231.0
    record identifier: in00005704644
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng