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Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

By Peter Liddel , Polly Low

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0199665745, 9780199665747
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5585070 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
Edition
1
Pages
416\657
Time added
2018-06-21 23:39:49
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Description

Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature offers a broad set of perspectives on the diverse forms of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke. This collection of essays explores the various ways in which ancient authors used inscribed texts and documents. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres, such as oratory, philosophy, poetry, and historiography, discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. They deployed them as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, individual morality, and piety, and even to express moral views about the nature of epigraphy.

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