Poets’ Corners in Greek Epigram Collections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9336492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Regina Höschele (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Tombs of the Ancient Poets (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198826477.003.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2896239770 |
| ISBN | 9780198826477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Exploring the position and interaction of poets’ tombs within Greek epigram collections, this chapter illustrates how poetry books could function as imagined literary graveyards, through which readers were invited to stroll in their mind. After contemplating a series of poems on playwrights by Dioscurides, it reflects upon the likely arrangement of poets’ tombs within Meleager’s and Philip’s Garlands . While Meleager combined a long series of epitaphs on poets at the beginning of his funerary book (concluded by a sequence of self-epitaphs), Philip excerpted primarily epitaphs starting with alpha , which permitted him to place them within the first section of his alphabetically organized anthology
Art · Art history · Biology · Literature · Poetry · Section (typography · Sequence (biology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |