Asclepiades of Samos : epigrams and fragments
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Asclepiades of Samos : epigrams and fragments
Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is the first commentary in English devoted exclusively to the surviving epigrams and fragments of Asclepiades of Samos, a Hellenistic poet who exerted great influence on the work of his contemporaries and helped shape the genre of literary epigram for many generations. The volume contains an extensive introduction, a new critical text and translation, and a full literary and philological commentary. Alexander Sens's main focus is on the way in which Asclepiades
engages with the Greek literary tradition, but attention is also paid to his influence on later writers.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I. Life and works
- II. The development of Hellenistic epigram
- III. Asclepiades and inscribed epigram
- IV. Erotic epigram and its generic background
- V. Narrative voice and genre
- VI. Asclepiades and his contemporaries
- VII. Asclepiades at court
- VIII. Language and style
- IX. Metre
- X. The transmission of the text
- TESTIMONIA
- SIGLA
- TEXT AND COMMENTARY
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