Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
Francis Cairns held the Chairs of Latin at the University of Liverpool and of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds before moving in 2000 to his present position as Professor of Classical Languages at Florida State University. His earlier books are Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (1972), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (Cambridge, 1979), Virgil's Augustan Epic (Cambridge, 1989), Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist (Cambridge, 2006), Papers on Roman Elegy (1969-2003) (2007) and Roman Lyric (2012).
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Preface Abbreviations Part I. Introductory: Contexts and their Loss: 1. Audience context and circulation context 2. Epigraphic context 3. The state of the text Part II. Afterlives: 4. Optimism 5. Consolation 6. Pessimism? 7. Shipwrecks Part III. Philosophical Matters: 8. Over-philosophical interpretations (Callimachus, Asclepiades, Posidippus) 9. Philosophical superficiality (Leonidas) 10. Meleager and philosophy 11. Philodemus Part IV. Temples and Shrines: 12. A shrine of the Great Mother 13. Apollo's deer at Kourion 14. Paphian Aphrodite Part V. Literary Polemics: 15. Posidippus 16. Asclepiades on Lyde 17. Further Hellenistic literary programmes 18. Antipater of Sidon 19. Epigrams about Erinna Part VI. Literary Polemics Continue: 20. Telchines and grammarians 21. Polemic pro/anti epic? Part VII. Poetry, Sex, the Countryside: 22. Poetry and sex 23. Country matters Part VIII. Medical Connections: 24. Medicine in non-epigrammatic Hellenistic poetry 25. Medicine in epigram Part IX. Epitaphs: Epigraphic or Epideictic?: 26. Death caused by wine 27. Deaths while drunk 28. Deaths of drunken old women 29. Cenotaphic epitymbia Part X. Local Interests: 30. Archaizing language: Anyte and Nicias 31. Dialects 32. Local customs: hair dedications 33. Historical claims: the Thyreatis Part XI. Speakers, Addressees, Antecedents: 34. Geese taken for swans 35. Speakers and addressees in archaic inscribed epigrams 36. Epitymbic speakers and addressees 37. Unsafe assumptions of originality 38. Over-interpretations of Hellenistic epigrams Part XII. The Erotic: 39. Novelty in the erotic komos 40. Legalism 41. 'Enrichment' and emotion 42. Cynical attitudes and mercenary motives 43. Meleager and mosquitoes Part XIII. Generic Innovation: 44. Implicit dialogue 45. Explicit dialogue 46. Initial generic deception 47. Epigraphic genres in amatory epigrams 48. Function as context 49. Multiple addressees Part XIV. Learning: 50. Philological 51. Technical 52. Metrical 53. Mythography and local culture Bibliography Index locorum Index anthologiae graecae Index of personal names in epigrams General index.
Preface Abbreviations Part I. Introductory: Contexts and their Loss: 1. Audience context and circulation context 2. Epigraphic context 3. The state of the text Part II. Afterlives: 4. Optimism 5. Consolation 6. Pessimism? 7. Shipwrecks Part III. Philosophical Matters: 8. Over-philosophical interpretations (Callimachus, Asclepiades, Posidippus) 9. Philosophical superficiality (Leonidas) 10. Meleager and philosophy 11. Philodemus Part IV. Temples and Shrines: 12. A shrine of the Great Mother 13. Apollo's deer at Kourion 14. Paphian Aphrodite Part V. Literary Polemics: 15. Posidippus 16. Asclepiades on Lyde 17. Further Hellenistic literary programmes 18. Antipater of Sidon 19. Epigrams about Erinna Part VI. Literary Polemics Continue: 20. Telchines and grammarians 21. Polemic pro/anti epic? Part VII. Poetry, Sex, the Countryside: 22. Poetry and sex 23. Country matters Part VIII. Medical Connections: 24. Medicine in non-epigrammatic Hellenistic poetry 25. Medicine in epigram Part IX. Epitaphs: Epigraphic or Epideictic?: 26. Death caused by wine 27. Deaths while drunk 28. Deaths of drunken old women 29. Cenotaphic epitymbia Part X. Local Interests: 30. Archaizing language: Anyte and Nicias 31. Dialects 32. Local customs: hair dedications 33. Historical claims: the Thyreatis Part XI. Speakers, Addressees, Antecedents: 34. Geese taken for swans 35. Speakers and addressees in archaic inscribed epigrams 36. Epitymbic speakers and addressees 37. Unsafe assumptions of originality 38. Over-interpretations of Hellenistic epigrams Part XII. The Erotic: 39. Novelty in the erotic komos 40. Legalism 41. 'Enrichment' and emotion 42. Cynical attitudes and mercenary motives 43. Meleager and mosquitoes Part XIII. Generic Innovation: 44. Implicit dialogue 45. Explicit dialogue 46. Initial generic deception 47. Epigraphic genres in amatory epigrams 48. Function as context 49. Multiple addressees Part XIV. Learning: 50. Philological 51. Technical 52. Metrical 53. Mythography and local culture Bibliography Index locorum Index anthologiae graecae Index of personal names in epigrams General index.
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