TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Hellenistic epigram : contexts of exploration
A1  - Cairns, Francis, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5477143
AB  - "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
SN  - 978-1-107-16850-3 sidottu
KW  - Epigrams, Greek : History and criticism
KW  - Greek poetry, Hellenistic : History and criticism
KW  - kreikankielinen kirjallisuus
KW  - epigrammit
KW  - kirjallisuudenhistoria
KW  - antiikki
KW  - grekisk litteratur
KW  - epigram
KW  - litteraturhistoria
KW  - antiken
ER  -