Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection

Author:   Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781108843980


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 January 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781108843980


ISBN 10:   1108843980
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 January 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 1. Funerary verse-inscriptions; 2. The style of Greek epitaphic verse; 3. Who wrote Greek verse-inscriptions?; 4. Ideas of death in Greek verse-inscriptions; 5. About this edition; Source Text: Greek Epitaphic Poetry. A Selection; Editorial Matter: Commentary.

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RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge, 2012), Hesiodic Voices (Cambridge, 2014), Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV (Cambridge, 2015), The Measure of Homer (Cambridge, 2018), and (with Rebecca Laemmle) Euripides: Cyclops (Cambridge, 2020). Many of his essays have been collected in the two-volume On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008). He has edited the Journal of Hellenic Studies and is on the editorial board of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge Classical Studies and several European journals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds honorary degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Ioannina, is a Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Athens and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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