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Poetic garlands : Hellenistic epigrams in context / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Hellenistic culture and society ; 28.Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1998Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520918979
  • 0520918975
  • 0585160333
  • 9780585160337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetic garlands.DDC classification:
  • 888/.0108 21
LOC classification:
  • PA3123 .G88 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Evidence from Manuscripts and Papyri. "In the Epigrams of ..." On Papyri. In Manuscript -- 3. The Third Century: From Stone to Book. Anyte. Nossis. Leonidas of Tarentum -- 4. The Third Century: Erotic and Sympotic Epigram. Asclepiades. Posidippus. Hedylus -- 5. The Book and the Scholar: Callimachus' Epigrammata. The Epigrammata. Dedicatory Epigrams. Sepulchral Epigrams. Erotic Epigrams -- 6. The Art of Variation: From Book to Anthology. Antipater of Sidon. Meleager. I. Structure of Cephalan Books -- II. Meleager's Amatory Book -- III. Structure of Meleager's Amatory Book -- IV. Meleager's Dedicatory Book -- V. Meleager's Sepulchral Book -- VI. Meleager's Epideictic Book.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and indexes.

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Short quotes in ancient Greek with English translation following.

1. Introduction -- 2. Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Evidence from Manuscripts and Papyri. "In the Epigrams of ..." On Papyri. In Manuscript -- 3. The Third Century: From Stone to Book. Anyte. Nossis. Leonidas of Tarentum -- 4. The Third Century: Erotic and Sympotic Epigram. Asclepiades. Posidippus. Hedylus -- 5. The Book and the Scholar: Callimachus' Epigrammata. The Epigrammata. Dedicatory Epigrams. Sepulchral Epigrams. Erotic Epigrams -- 6. The Art of Variation: From Book to Anthology. Antipater of Sidon. Meleager. I. Structure of Cephalan Books -- II. Meleager's Amatory Book -- III. Structure of Meleager's Amatory Book -- IV. Meleager's Dedicatory Book -- V. Meleager's Sepulchral Book -- VI. Meleager's Epideictic Book.

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