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" Hellenistic epigram : "
Francis Cairns.
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BL
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839133
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Cairns, Francis
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Hellenistic epigram : : contexts of exploration /\ Francis Cairns.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :: Cambridge University Press,, 2016.
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xviii, 516 pages ;; 24 cm
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1107168503
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: 9781107168503
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-498) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introductory : contexts and their loss -- Afterlives -- Philosophical matters -- Temples and shrines -- Literary polemics -- Literary polemics continue -- Poetry, sex, the countryside -- Medical connections -- Epitaphs : epigraphic or epideictic? -- Local interests -- Speakers, addressee, antecedents -- The erotic -- Generic innovation -- Learning.
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"In this book, Francis Cairns provides scholars of Hellenistic and Roman literature with an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts within which Hellenistic epigrams were composed. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations of them proposed. Throughout the question is asked whether epigrams are literary jeux d'esprit (as is often assumed without proper discussion) or whether they relate to real people and real events and have a function in the real world. That function may be epigraphic, e.g. an epigram can be the epitymbion for inscription at someone's grave, or the anathematikon for inscription on or beside a dedicated object, or a picture-label--an ekphrasis to accompany a painting or mosaic."--Dust jacket.
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Epigrams, Greek-- History and criticism.
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic-- History and criticism.
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Epigramm
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Epigrams, Greek.
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic.
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Griechisch
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Hellenismus
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HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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| Dewey Classification
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888/.00209
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PA3084.E64C35 2016
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881
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HIS002000bisacsh
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HIS002000.bisacsh
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