A Companion to Ancient Epigram (eBook)

Christer Henriksén, PhD, is a Professor of Latin in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Notes on Contributors ix

Abbreviations xvii

Introduction 1

Christer Henriksén

PART I Epigram: Features and Definitions 19

1 What Is an Epigram?: Defining a Genre 21
Mario Citroni

2 A Gallery of Characters: Real Persons and Fictitious Types in Epigram 43
Patricia Watson

3 Epigram, Society, and Political Power 59
Kathleen M. Coleman

4 Hidden Figures: The Women Who Wrote Epigrams 77
Laurel Bowman

5 The Masculine and the Feminine in Epigram 93
Lindsay Watson

6 Obscenity in Epigram 111
Bret Mulligan

7 The Meters of Epigram: Elegy and Its Rivals 127
Llewelyn Morgan

8 Epigram in Epic and Greek Tragedy: Generic Interactions 145
Martin T. Dinter

9 Epigram and Satire 163
Rosario Cortés Tovar

10 Immanent Genre Theory in Greek and Roman Epigram 179
Margot Neger

11 Epigram and Rhetoric 195
Nina Mindt

12 Greek Anthologies from the Hellenistic Age to the Byzantine Era: A Survey 211
Francesca Maltomini

PART II Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Greece 229

13 The Origins of Greek Epigram: The Unity of Inscription and Object 231
Joseph W. Day

14 Simonides of Ceos and Epigram in Classical Greece 24
Luigi Bravi

PART III Epigram in the Hellenistic World 265

15 The Development of Epigram into a Literary Genre 267
Valentina Garulli

16 Anyte's Feminine Voice: Tradition and Innovation 287
Ellen Greene

17 Leonidas of Tarentum 303
Jacqueline Klooster

18 Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram 319
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

19 Asclepiades of Samos 337
Alexander Sens

20 Posidippus and Ancient Epigram Books 351
Kathryn Gutzwiller

21 Taking Position: Later Hellenistic Epigrammatists 371
Annette Harder

22 Meleager of Gadara 389
Évelyne Prioux

23 Moving to Rome: Antipater of Sidon, Archias of Antiocheia, Philodemus, and Others 407
Annemarie Ambühl

PART IV Latin and Greek Epigram at Rome 423

24 The Beginnings of Roman Epigram and Its Relationship with Hellenistic Poetry 425
Alfredo Mario Morelli

25 Catullus as Epigrammatist 441
Niklas Holzberg

26 Latin Epigram in the Early Empire 459
Christer Henriksén

27 Greek Epigram in Rome in the First Century ce 475
Regina Höschele

28 Epigrams in the Graffiti of Pompeii 491
Kristina Milnor

29 Martial's Early Works: The Liber Spectaculorum, Xenia, and Apophoreta 505
T. J. Leary

30 Micro to Macro: Martial's Twelve Books of Epigrams 521
Sven Lorenz

31 Carminis Incompti Lusus: The Carmina Priapea 541
Eugene O'Connor

32 Pseudo-Senecan Epigrams 557
Alfred Breitenbach

PART V Epigram in Late Antiquity 575

33 The Late Latin Literary Epigram (Third to Fifth Centuries ce) 577
Luca Mondin

34 Greek Epigram in Late Antiquity 597
Gianfranco Agosti

35 Damasus and the Christian Epigram in the West 615
Dennis Trout

36 Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East 633
Christos Simelidis

37 Inter Romulidas et Tyrias Manus: Luxorius and Epigram in Vandal Africa 649
Anna Maria Wasyl

PART VI The Fortleben of Ancient Epigram 665

38 Epigram in the Later Western Literary Tradition 667
Peter Howell

39 The Epigram in Byzantium and Beyond 679
Andreas Rhoby

Index 695