Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram : Down to Philip.

Intro -- Brill's Companion toHellenistic Epigram -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Study of Hellenistic Epigram -- PART ONE MODELS AND FORM -- Poems on Stone: The Inscribed Antecedents of Hellenistic Epigram -- Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources -- The Mutual Influence of Inscribed and Literary Epigram -- From Archaic Elegy to Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram? -- Sylloge Simonidea -- The Arrangement of Epigrams in Collections -- Meleager and Philip as Epigram Collectors -- Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism -- PART TWO POETICS -- The Act of Reading and the Act of Writing in Hellenistic Epigram -- Gendered Voices in Hellenistic Epigram -- Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram -- Epigrams on Art: Voice and Voicelessness in Hellenistic Epigram -- PART THREE GENRE -- Tell, All Ye Singers, My Fame: Kings, Queens and Nobility in Epigram -- Epinician Epigram -- The Paradox of Amatory Epigram -- Bucolic Epigram -- Satiric Epigram -- PART FOUR EPIGRAMS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS -- One Things Leads (Back) to Another: Allusion and the Invention of Tradition in Hellenistic Epigrams -- Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram -- Epigram and the Heritage of Epic -- Inscribing Lyric -- The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax -- Epigram and the Theater -- Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Epigram -- PART FIVE RECEPTION -- Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age -- Roman Imperial Receptions of Hellenistic Epigram -- The Modern Reception of Greek Epigram -- Bibliography -- Index of Epigrams Discussed -- Index of Ancient Passages Discussed -- General Subject Index.

An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts, and ancient and modern reception of Hellenistic epigram.

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