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Title:

Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Peter Liddel and Polly Low.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Inscriptions, Ancient.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Inscriptions, Latin.
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Quotations, Latin, in literature.
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Quotations, Greek, in literature.

Other Authors:

Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977- editor of compilation.
Low, Polly, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the reception of ancient inscriptions / Peter Liddel and Polly Low -- Cui vetustas fidem faciat: inscriptions and other material relics of the past in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Andreas Hartmann -- Herodotus and temple inventories / Elizabeth Kosmetatou -- Illustrating, documenting, making-believe: the use of psephismata in Hellenistic biographies of philosophers / Matthias Haake -- From inscriptions to literature (and sometimes back again): some uses of the epigraphic sources in the ancient literary traditions on Delphi / Manuela Mari -- Inscriptions as literature in Pausanias' Exegesis of Hellas / Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos -- Archaic Latin inscriptions and Greek and Roman authors / David Langslow -- Inscribed epigrams in orators and epigrammatic collections / Andrej Petrovic -- Epigraphic literacy in fifth-century Epinician and its audiences / Joseph Day -- Kleos versus stone? Lyric poetry and contexts for memorialization / David Fearn -- Inscriptions on the Attic stage / Julia Lougovaya -- Aristotle's hymn to virtue and funerary inscriptions / Pauline LeVen -- Speaking from the tomb? The disappearing epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia Fr. 64 Pf. / A. D. Morrison -- Inscriptional intermediality in Latin literature / Martin Dinter -- Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the poets, and the inscriptions / Jocelyne Nelis-Cl©♭ment and Damien Nelis -- Epitome and eternity: some epitaphs and votive inscriptions in the Latin love elegists / L. B. T. Houghton -- Shuffling surfaces: epigraphy, power, and integrity in the Graeco-Roman narratives / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents.

ISBN:

0199665745 (hbk.)
9780199665747 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861619255

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)