Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram

Language And Style Of Epigram Is A Topic Scarcely Discussed In The Related Bibliography. This Edition Aspires To Fill The Gap By Offering An In-depth Study Of Dialect, Diction, And Style In Greek Literary And Inscribed Epigram In A Collection Of Twenty-one Contributions Authored By International Scholars. The Authors Explore The Epigrammatic Kunstsprache And Matters Of Dialectical Variation, The Interchange Between Poetic And Colloquial Vocabulary, The Employment Of Hapax Legomena, The Formalistic Uses Of The Epigrammatic Discourse (meter, Syntactical Patterns, Arrangement Of Words, Riddles), The Various Categories Of Style In Sepulchral, Philosophical And Pastoral Contexts Of Literary Epigrams, And The Idiosyncratic Diction Of Inscriptions. This Is A Book Intended For Classicists Who Want To Review The Connection Between The Stylistic Features Of Epigram And Its Interpretation, As Well As For Scholars Keen To Understand How Rhetoric And Linguistics Can Be Used As A Heuristic Tool For The Study Of Literature. Dialect And Diction -- Doing Doric / Ewen Bowie -- Callimachus' Doric Graces : 15 Gp = 51 Pf / Dee L. Clayman -- Dialect And Imitation In Late Hellenistic Epigram / Taylor Coughlan -- The Language Of Greek Skoptic Epigram Of The I-ii Centuries Ad / Lucia Floridi -- Form And Design -'unplumbed Depths Of Fatuity?' Philip Of Thessaloniki's Art Of Variation / Regina Höschele -- Pentameters / Gregory O. Hutchinson -- Epigrams In Epic? The Case Of Apollonius Rhodius / Demetra Koukouzika -- When Is A Riddle An Epigram? / Jan Kwapisz -- The [apò Koinoū] Construction Of Prepositions As A Feature Of The Epigrammatic Style / Guido Massimilla -- Style In Literary Epigram, A) : Sepulchral Style -- Archaic Epigram And The Seal Of Theognis / Egbert J. Bakker -- Words For Dying In Sepulchral Epigram / Michael A. Tueller -- Style In Literary Epigram, B) : Philosophical Style -- A Little-studied Dialogue : Rresponses To Plato In Callimachean Epigram / Benjamin Acosta-hughes -- Style And Dialect In Meleager's Heraclitus Epigram / Kathryn Gutzwiller -- A Philosophical Death? / Richard Hunter -- Style In Literary Epigram, C) : Pastoral Style -- Novice Pastoral Eros And Its Epigrammatic Critics / Marco Fantuzzi -- Pastoral Markers In Hellenistic Epigram : The Fan-fiction Approach / Nita Krevans -- Style In Inscribed Epigram -- A Sundial For A Deceased Woman : Two Epigrams From Pamphylia (i-ii A. D.) / Francesca Angiò -- Playing With Language In Everyday Poetry : Hapax Legomena In Inscribed Funerary Epigrams / Valentina Garulli -- Hearing Heracles On The Tabula Albani / David Petrain -- Casualty Lists In Performance : Name Catalogues And Greek Verse-inscriptions / Andrej Petrovic -- The Style And Language Of Epigrammatic Programmata / Ivana Petrovic. Edited By Evina Sistakou And Antōnios Rengakos. Proceedings Of 9th Trends In Classics Conference Held In Thessalonikē On 29-31 May, 2015. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In German, Includes Epigrams In Greek.