The development of epigram in classical Greece
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The inscribed epigrams of early Greece give scholars an unparalleled opportunity to chronicle fully the early history of a literary genre. Short poems inscribed on stone and set up accompanying funerary monuments or dedications to the gods, epigrams possess specific temporal and spatial contexts. Unlike early Greece's much-studied oral poetry, which cannot be contextualized as precisely, inscribed epigrams allow us to study generic development across local contexts. This dissertation traces how inscribed epigram developed from a diverse set of regional traditions into a coherent genre across Greece, thereby providing the foundation for the later Western tradition of literary epigram.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Sheppard, Alan | |
|---|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. | |
| Primary advisor | Martin, Richard P | |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Richard P | |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah | |
| Thesis advisor | Petrovic, Andrej | |
| Thesis advisor | Stephens, Susan A | |
| Advisor | Ober, Josiah | |
| Advisor | Petrovic, Andrej | |
| Advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alan Sheppard. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Alan Joshua Raphael Sheppard
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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