Author : Richard Hunter
Release : 2022-01-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Epitaphic Poetry by : Richard Hunter
Download or read book Greek Epitaphic Poetry written by Richard Hunter. This book was released on 2022-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
