Deixis and Frames of Reference in Hellenistic Dedicatory Epigrams

Deixis and Frames of Reference in Hellenistic Dedicatory Epigrams
Author: Flavia Licciardello
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110681854

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The book presents an analysis of communicative structures and deictic elements in Hellenistic dedicatory epigrams. Moving from the most recent linguistic theories on pragmatics and considering together both Stein- and Buchepigramme, this study investigates the linguistic means that are employed in texts transmitted on different media (the stone and the book) to point to and describe their spatial and temporal context. The research is based on the collection of a new corpus of Hellenistic book and inscribed dedicatory epigrams, which were compared to pre-Hellenistic dedicatory epigrams in order to highlight the crucial changes that characterise the development of the epigrammatic genre in the Hellenistic era. By demonstrating that the evolution of the epigrammatic genre moved on the same track for book and stone epigrams, this work offers an important contribution to the ongoing debate on the history of the epigrammatic genre and aims to stimulate further reflection on a poetic genre, which, since its origins in the Greek world, has been successful both in ancient and modern literary traditions.

The Language of Objects: Deixis in Descriptive Greek Epigrams

The Language of Objects: Deixis in Descriptive Greek Epigrams
Author: Federica Scicolone
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004545719

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The Language of Objects sheds new light on the sub-genre of Greek descriptive epigram, focusing on deictic reference as a springboard to understand three different approaches to the materiality of texts: imagination-oriented deixis, pointing to referents conjured in the reader’s mind; ocular deixis, addressing perceivable referents; displaced deixis, underscoring the subjective response of readers/viewers. Uniquely combining overlooked verse-inscriptions and well-known literary and inscribed texts, which are freshly re-examined through a cognitive lens, this volume explores the evolution of deixis in descriptive epigrams dating from the pre-Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. With its original analysis, the book pushes forward the study of Greek epigram and current understanding of deixis in ancient poetry.

Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context

Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context
Author: Silvia Orlandi
Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 8893770210

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This volume collects the proceedings of the final conference of the European project EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), held at the Sapienza University of Rome on January 28-30th 2016.

The greek anthology

The greek anthology
Author: Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1965
Genre: Epigrams, Greek
ISBN:

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Hellenistic Epigrams

Hellenistic Epigrams
Author: Alexander Sens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108916538

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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. This edition introduces students to a wide selection of epigrams from the third and second centuries BCE. It provides substantial help in construing the Greek and will be appropriate for those approaching the genre for the first time, whilst also containing material of interest to scholars. It includes work by the most important epigrammatists of this period, with substantial attention paid to the way these poets engage with the epigraphic and literary traditions. The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the genre and of its formal features, including dialect and meter.

Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Author: Peter Bing
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9047419405

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An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts, and ancient and modern reception of Hellenistic epigram.

Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram

Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram
Author: Manuel Baumbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2010-12-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521118050

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This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic achievement.

Further Greek Epigrams

Further Greek Epigrams
Author: Denys L. Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521063779

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This book continues the work done in the volumes edited by A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page entitled Hellenistic Epigrams and The Garland of Philip. It sets out to include all Greek literary epigrams composed before AD 50 and not published in those volumes, and extends also to epigrams ascribed to certain imperial Romans. Another author commented on is Leonides of Alexandria, whose poems observe curious mathematical laws. The challenge to the authenticity of much of what passes for Simonides and the associated historical discussion constitute one of the most important sections of the book. This edition and commentary will be indispensable to scholars of Greek literature.