Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin literature
Liddel, Peter PContributor
Liddel, Peter PEditor
Low, PollyContributor
Low, PollyEditor
From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. This volume offers a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the diversity of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. This volume offers a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the diversity of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.
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Introduction: the reception of ancient inscriptions / Peter Liddel and Polly Low -- Cui vetustas fidem faciat: inscriptions and other material relics of the past in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Andreas Hartmann -- Herodotus and temple inventories / Elizabeth Kosmetatou -- Illustrating, documenting, making-believe: the use of psephismata in Hellenistic biographies of philosophers / Matthias Haake -- From  inscriptions  to literature (and sometimes back again): some uses of the epigraphic sources in the ancient literary traditions on Delphi / Manuela Mari -- Inscriptions as literature in Pausanias' Exegesis of Hellas / Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos -- Archaic Latin inscriptions and Greek and Roman authors / David Langslow -- Inscribed epigrams in orators and epigrammatic collections / Andrej Petrovic -- Epigraphic literacy in fifth-century Epinician and its audiences / Joseph Day -- Kleos versus stone? Lyric poetry and contexts for memorialization / David Fearn --  Inscriptions on the Attic stage / Julia Lougovaya -- Aristotle's hymn to virtue and funerary inscriptions / Pauline LeVen -- Speaking from the tomb? The disappearing epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia Fr. 64 Pf. / A. D. Morrison -- Inscriptional intermediality in Latin literature / Martin Dinter -- Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the poets, and the inscriptions / Jocelyne Nelis-Clément and Damien Nelis -- Epitome and eternity: some epitaphs and votive inscriptions in the Latin love elegists / L. B. T. Houghton -- Shuffling surfaces: epigraphy, power, and integrity in the Graeco-Roman narratives / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.
Inscriptions, Ancient
Inscriptions, Greek
Inscriptions, Latin
Greek literature
Quotations, Latin, in literature
Latin literature
Languages & Literatures
History & Archaeology
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures
Archaeology