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Epigram

Epigram

Livingstone, Niall
Nisbet, Gideon

Paperback

Series: New Surveys in the Classics, Book 38

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521145708
ISBN13: 9780521145701
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 22 2010
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
This is an introduction to the ancient genre of epigram, short poems literally written or inscribed 'on' an object or figuratively 'on' a topic. The authors set out what epigram means and why it matters, exploring its roots in inscriptions on stone and its literary flourishing in the Hellenistic world after Alexander. They trace its migration from Greece to Rome, where its most famous exponent was Martial, and consider the continuation of Greek epigram under the Roman empire in the so-called 'Second Sophistic'. The final chapter shows how Greek epigram achieved new importance in the nineteenth century as raw material for stories about the classical past.

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