Pastoral Markers in Hellenistic Epigram: The Fan-Fiction Approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Dialect and Diction
5. Doing Doric 3
6. Callimachus’ Doric Graces: 15 GP = 51 Pf. 23
7. Dialect and Imitation in Late Hellenistic Epigram 37
8. The Language of Greek Skoptic Epigram of the I‒II centuries AD 71
9. Form and Design
10. “Unplumbed Depths of Fatuity?” Philip of Thessaloniki’s Art of Variation 105
11. Pentameters 119
12. Epigrams in Epic? The Case of Apollonius Rhodius 139
13. When Is a Riddle an Epigram? 151
14. The ἀπὸ κοινοῦ Construction of Prepositions as a Feature of the Epigrammatic Style 173
15. Style in Literary Epigram: a) Sepulchral Style
16. Archaic Epigram and the Seal of Theognis 195
17. Words for Dying in Sepulchral Epigram 215
18. Style in Literary Epigram: b) Philosophical Style
19. A Little-Studied Dialogue: Responses to Plato in Callimachean Epigram 237
20. Style and Dialect in Meleager’s Heraclitus Epigram 253
21. A Philosophical Death? 269
22. Style in Literary Epigram: c) Pastoral Style
23. Novice Pastoral Eros and Its Epigrammatic Critics 281
24. Pastoral Markers in Hellenistic Epigram: The Fan-Fiction Approach 297
25. Style in Inscribed Epigram
26. A Sundial for a Deceased Woman: Two Epigrams from Pamphylia (I–II A. D.) 311
27. Playing with Language in Everyday Poetry: hapax legomena in Inscribed Funerary Epigrams 323
28. Hearing Heracles on the Tabula Albani 335
29. Casualty Lists in Performance. Name Catalogues and Greek Verse-Inscriptions 361
30. The Style and Language of Epigrammatic Programmata 391
31. List of Contributors 415
32. Index 421