Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin literature

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Other Authors: Liddel, Peter (Editor) , Low, Polly (Other)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Series:Oxford studies in ancient documents
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the reception of ancient inscriptions Peter Liddel and Polly LowCui 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.