A companion to ancient epigram

Wiley Blackwell

2019

xxvii, 704 pages

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Includes bibliographical references and index

9781118841723

What Is an Epigram?: Defining a Genre / Mario Citroni -- A Gallery of Characters: Real Persons and Fictitious Types in Epigram / Patricia Watson -- Epigram, Society, and Political Power / Kathleen M. Coleman -- Hidden Figures: The Women Who Wrote Epigrams / Laurel Bowman -- The Masculine and the Feminine in Epigram / Lindsay Watson -- Obscenity in Epigram / Bret Mulligan -- The Meters of Epigram: Elegy and Its Rivals / Llewelyn Morgan -- Epigram in Epic and Greek Tragedy: Generic Interactions / Martin T. Dinter -- Epigram and Satire / Rosario Cortés Tovar -- Immanent Genre Theory in Greek and Roman Epigram / Margot Neger -- Epigram and Rhetoric / Nina Mindt -- Greek Anthologies from the Hellenistic Age to the Byzantine Era: A Survey / Francesca Maltomini -- The Origins of Greek Epigram: The Unity of Inscription and Object / Joseph W. Day -- Simonides of Ceos and Epigram in Classical Greece / Luigi Bravi -- The Development of Epigram into a Literary Genre / Valentina Garulli -- Anyte's Feminine Voice: Tradition and Innovation / Ellen Greene -- Leonidas of Tarentum / Jacqueline Klooster -- Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Asclepiades of Samos / Alexander Sens -- Posidippus and Ancient Epigram Books / Kathryn Gutzwiller -- Taking Position: Later Hellenistic Epigrammatists / Annette Harder -- Meleager of Gadara / Évelyne Prioux -- Moving to Rome: Antipater of Sidon, Archias of Antiocheia, Philodemus, and Others / Annemarie Ambühl -- The Beginnings of Roman Epigram and Its Relationship with Hellenistic Poetry / Alfredo Mario Morelli -- Catullus as Epigrammatist / Niklas Holzberg -- Latin Epigram in the Early Empire / Christer Henriksén -- Greek Epigram in Rome in the First Century ce / Regina Höschele -- Epigrams in the Graffiti of Pompeii / Kristina Milnor -- Martial's Early Works: The Liber Spectaculorum, Xenia, and Apophoreta / T. J. Leary -- Micro to Macro: Martial's Twelve Books of Epigrams / Sven Lorenz -- Carminis Incompti Lusus: The Carmina Priapea / Eugene O'Connor -- Pseudo-Senecan Epigrams / Alfred Breitenbach -- The Late Latin Literary Epigram (Third to Fifth Centuries ce) / Luca Mondin -- Greek Epigram in Late Antiquity / Gianfranco Agosti -- Damasus and the Christian Epigram in the West / Dennis Trout -- Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East / Christos Simelidis -- Inter Romulidas et Tyrias Manus: Luxorius and Epigram in Vandal Africa / Anna Maria Wasyl -- Epigram in the Later Western Literary Tradition / Peter Howell -- The Epigram in Byzantium and Beyond / Andreas Rhoby

"From Nestor's inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary history unlike any other. This book examines the entire history of the epigram, from its beginnings as a purely epigraphic phenomenon in the Greek world, where it moved from being just a note attached to physical objects to an actual literary form of expression, to its zenith in late 1st century Rome, and further through a period of stagnation up to its last blooming, just before the beginning of the Dark Ages."-- Publisher's website

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