Marcus valerius martialis epigrams in dorian
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Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram 3110498790, 9783110498790
Table of contents : • Ancient Roman family The gens Stertinia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome. It first rose to prominence at the time of the Second Punic War, and although none of its members attained the consulship in the time of the Republic, a number of Stertinii were so honoured in the course of the first two centuries of the Empire.[1] The main praenomina used by the Stertinii were Lucius, Gaius, and Marcus, the three most common of all praenomina. There are also instances of Quintus and Publius, which likewise were very common names. Along the Via Labicana is the Columbarium of the Stertinii, a tomb discovered in 1912, containing various Stertinii, and members of their household, including freedmen and their wives.[2] The tomb had a capacity of at least one hundred and sixty niche burials, organized in a grid, each containing a cinerary urn. Beneath many of the niches were in •
Preface
Table of Contents
Dialect and Diction
Doing Doric
Callimachus’ Doric Graces: 15 GP = 51 Pf
Dialect and Imitation in Late Hellenistic Epigram
The Language of Greek Skoptic Epigram of the I?II centuries AD
Form and Design
“Unplumbed Depths of Fatuity?” Philip of Thessaloniki’s Art of Variation
Pentameters
Epigrams in Epic? The Case of Apollonius Rhodius
When Is a Riddle an Epigram?
The ἀπὸ κοινοῦ Construction of
Prepositions as a Feature of the
Epigrammatic Style
Style in Literary Epigram
a) Sepulchral Style
Archaic Epigram and the Seal of Theognis
Words for Dying in Sepulchral Epigram
b) Philosophical Style
A Little-Studied Dialogue: Responses to Plato in Callimachean Epigram
Style and Dialect in Meleager’s Heraclitus Epigram
A Philosophical Death?
c) Pastoral Style
Novice Pastoral Eros and Its Epigrammatic Critics
Pastoral Markers in Helle Stertinia gens
Praenomina
[edit]Columbarium of the Stertinii
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