Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin literature / edited by Peter Liddel and Polly Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977- editor.

Low, Polly, editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Ancient.

Inscriptions, Greek.

Inscriptions, Latin.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Quotations, Latin, in literature.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Quotations, Greek, in literature.

Local Subjects:

Quotations, Greek, in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Provides a fuller picture of the interaction between epigraphic and literary culture in the ancient world. Covers Greek and Latin texts, both prose and verse. Offers a broad range of modern perspectives on the ancient uses of inscriptions, with connotations for our understanding of literacy and reading. Explores a new set of perspectives on the ancient reception of inscriptions. Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature offers a broad set of perspectives on the diverse forms of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke. This collection of essays explores the various ways in which ancient authors used inscribed texts and documents. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres, such as oratory, philosophy, poetry, and historiography, discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. They deployed them as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, individual morality, and piety, and even to express moral views about the nature of epigraphy.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199665747

0199665745

OCLC:

861619255