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Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods.
In The Privileges of Death: Images of Immortality in Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram in the 1st-3rd centuries AD.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2012.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; List of Abbreviations ; Illustrations and Credits ; Introduction ; I. Eschatological Themes in Epigrams ; Alternative Possibilities about the Status of Dead ; Scholarly Debate ; Modes and Means of Production.
- Varieties of Experience, Pluralities of Perspectives Individualism and Polemic ; Between Uniformity and Diversity, towards Interpretation ; II. The Dead As Gods ; Apotheosis of the Dead in Verse-Inscriptions ; Gods, Heroes, and Humans ; Private Defications? ; Apotheosis in the Ether.
- Epigraphic Testimonies Understanding the Broad Circulation ; Astral Immortality ; Apotheosis among the Stars in Verse-Inscriptions ; The Impact of Imperial Ideology ; Elite and Popular Appeal ; III. The Dead As Heroes ; Heroic Iconography: Limits of Testimony ; ""Hu}{ on Tombs and in Funerary Foundations.
- Heroisation in Funerary Epigrams The Meaning of u}{; Immortal Gratitude, with Style ; Heroes, Daemons, and the Dead ; Epigrams and Consolations ; The Diverging Semantic Dimensions ; The Deceased Privileged As Heroes ; IV. Marriages with the Gods ; Gods Abducting Mortals.
- Persephone and Hades in Funerary Epigrams Mystic Wedding? ; Orphic Hypothesis: Epigram for Theophile ; Persephone, Eleusinia, and the Underworld ; Brides and Bridegrooms in Their Prime ; Abduction of Young, Handsome Adonis ; V. The Deceased As the Chosen Ones and the Lovers of Deities.