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

  • Gutzwiller, Kathryn J
Date:
1998
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Publication/Creation

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1998.

Physical description

xiii, 358 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339) and indexes.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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