Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods / by Andrzej Wypustek.

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Wypustek, Andrzej

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TextSeries: Mnemosyne. Supplements, monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; v. 352.Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9789004233201
9004233202

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods.DDC classification:

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CN373 .W97 2013eb

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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

Summary: 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.

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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.

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