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Greek epitaphic poetry: a selection
In: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
"This is an anthology of private funerary poems in Greek from the archaic period until later antiquity. The vast majority of these poems were inscribed on tombs or grave stelai and served to identify, celebrate and mourn the dead. It is not in fact very difficult to distinguish such 'funerary' poems from other types of inscription, even if there are important overlaps in style and subject between, say, some honorific and some epitaphic verse-inscriptions; what can be much more difficult, however, is to distinguish 'public' from 'private' inscriptions, and indeed to decide what, if anything, is at stake in the distinction and how that distinction changed over time. Our earliest verse epitaphs seem to be 'private', in the sense that, as far as we can tell, they were designed and erected by the family of the deceased. For the fifth century, however, our evidence is predominantly Attic, and, from the first three-quarters of the century in particular, we have very few clearly 'private' such inscriptions, as opposed to those either sponsored or displayed (or both) by public authorities; this was the age of public burials and public commemorations in polyandry or 'multiple tombs', which (quite literally) embodied the spirit of public service demanded of male citizens. 'Private' poems too, of course, reflected the ideology of the city in which they were displayed, and we must not assume that a 'public-private' distinction mapped exactly on to some ancient equivalent of a modern 'official-unofficial' one. 'Private' inscriptions, for example, might need 'public' blessing to be erected in a particularly prominent place or even to use a particular language of praise."--
Brill's companion to Hellenistic epigram: down to Philipp
In: Brill's companions in classical studies
Inscriptional records for the dramatic festivals in Athens: IG II2 2318-2325 and related texts
In: Brill's studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy
Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History
In: Classical Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
In: Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology 9
Mundus alter: utopie e distopie nella commedia graeca antica
In: Letteratura greca e latina
Archaic and classical attic dedicatory epigrams: an epigraphic, literary, and linguistic commentary
In: Trends in Classics
In: Supplementary Volumes Volume 33
Epigrams found on the Athenian Acropolis. -- I. Epigrams on stone -- II. Epigrams on bronze objects -- III. Epigrams inscribed on vessels -- IV. Epigrams found outside the Acropolis -- V. Dubia
Orateurs et sophistes grecs dans les inscriptions d'époque impériale
In: Textes et traditions 4
Energeia: studies on ancient history and epigraphy presented to H. W. Pleket
In: Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology 16
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