Hellenistic epigram
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Recent papers in Hellenistic epigram
In questo PDF propongo un abstract della mia tesi magistrale sul nuovo filone degli epigrammi "mitologici" di Dioscoride, seguito dall'indice completo del mio lavoro e da un'abbondante bibliografia in merito.
Cette contribution étudie les références au paysage dans les épigrammes de Léonidas de Tarente sous trois angles principaux : quelles sont les techniques d'enargeia employées par le poète tarentin dans ses épigrammes évoquant un paysage ?... more
Introduzione e Traduzione di Gabriele Mantineo.
[Modern Greek; Supervisors: Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Charilaos Michalopoulos, Stelios Panayotakis]... more
FINAL VERSION - Metapoetics in Epitaphs on Poets and Self-Epitaphs. Entry in Dictionnaire des images métapoétiques anciennes, eds. Jean-Philippe Guez, Florence Klein, Jocelyne Peigney and Evelyne Prioux, Classiques Garnier (forthcoming)
An "Alexandrian" encomiastic epigram in honor of Augustus (Supplementum Hellenisticum 982), "Aevum Antiquum" 11 (1998), 255-344 Contents: 1) Papyrological evidence. Hypothesis on the period and on the circumstances of the composition... more
Versione rivista e ampliata di A. M. Morelli, Il carme 6 di Catullo. Analisi e commento, online dal 2014 presso il portale AICC di Firenze all’indirizzo http://www.aiccfirenze.it/images/materiali_/conferenze/Catullo_carme_6.pdf.
An in-depth look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to... more
This paper concerns the meta-poetic features characterising two epigrams by Alcaeus of Messene, 16 G-P and 11 G-P. Firstly (pp. 11-17), it intends to demonstrate, by means of etymological analysis, how the deep meaning of 16 G-P, namely... more
A study of the epigram of Herodicus (apud Athen. 5. 222a) in its Babylonian context.
Success in war over rival kings or barbarian invaders was one of the marks of legitimation for the Hellenistic rulers. Depictions of, or allusions to, war are quite rare in the surviving Hellenistic court poetry; however, we can have a... more
Very extended version of the paper presented at the conference "Alexander's Legacy", including a commentary of all the texts which could not be included in the shorter book version (here:... more
This paper can be downloaded for free - Articolo liberamente scaricabile This paper compares a number of epigrams from the Garland of Philip and their likely models in the Garland of Meleager. By such a comparison, this work aims to... more
... take it, for passion) by her "soft Zephyrs"; for the identification with Aphrodite-Arsinoe at Zephyrium, see the commentary of Gow-Page. On Aphrodite Ourania as patroness of marriage, see Lewis R. Farnell, The Cults... more
In the light of the new verses preserved by the P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, this paper aims at a new examination of the inscribed epigrams that Werner Peek ascribed to Posidippus of Pella: the discovery of hundreds of new verses that the... more
Because it is a flexible genre, the epigram can be analyzed in groups or alone. It provides researchers with different possibilities of epigram grouping and methodological approaches. Studies on funerary epigram frequently analyze the... more
Il poeta Mnasalce di Sicione – fiorito nella metà del III sec. a.C. e affiancato nel proemio della Corona meleagrea al più famoso Leonida (AP IV 1,16) – si caratterizza quale autore di epigrammi erotici, dedicatorî e sepolcrali; fra... more
My PhD dissertation is an exhaustive commentary on the 31 epigrams ascribed to Apollonides. It deals with textual, literary, intertextual, historical, stylistic and metric matters. From a methodological point of view, I employed such a... more
No ancient genre preserves as many female-authored poems as that of epigram. The private production, and publication in writing, of Hellenistic epigram gave female poets, who were generally excluded from public oral performance, an... more
Chapter 10 studies Hellenistic and Roman military epitaphs, and addresses a number of interconnected issues: the unpopularity of epitaphs for individual soldiers in the Greek Anthology; the near absence of inscribed epitaphs in literary... more
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"I am melting as the snow on the mountains": The adventure of a phrase in Erotic Greek Litterature (Homer, Ancient Greek Litterature, Shepperds' poems - to 20th Century philological research). S. Raptopoulos, Grevena 11.09.2019. Το... more
Talk given at "Editing Contexts -Historical Editions of Literary Works and their Afterlives" a one-day interdisciplinary conference on historical editions of literary texts, supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities... more
"Contents: 1. Introduction: doriktetos chora and the ‘spear theme’ in Hellenistic court poetry 2. The text of the epigram for Neoptolemus 3. The identity of Neoptolemus 4. Historical background 4.1. Anatolia between Ptolemies and... more