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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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Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne. Supplements, monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ;
v. 352. |
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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?
- Persephone and Hades in Funerary EpigramsMystic 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; 'Those Chosen by Deities Die Young'; Epigraphic Testimonies; Peculiar Development: Ganymede in Verse-Inscriptions; Ganymede in Funerary Art; Spirituality or Carnality of the Myth, or Both; Zeus, His Thunderbolt, and the Dead; Death Caused by Lightning; Between Miracles, Allegories, and Fables