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Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781108843980
  • ISBN-10: 1108843980
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: January 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.77 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Page Count: 296

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