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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
… many parts. This dissertation explores Martial’s Epigrams to ask how the poet presents his own work as a whole, gendered entity within its generic context. This dissertation undertakes a close textual analysis of epigrams that prominently feature body imagery for the text and textual imagery …
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The Dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-Speaking Areas
… explores the dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-speaking areas, a corpus not yet analysed in its entirety. The aim of the research is twofold: to fill a gap in the scholarship, through a systematic and comprehensive description of the dialectal features from the collected …
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GLI EPIGRAMMI 'DI PLATONE'. EDIZIONE, COMMENTO, FORTUNA
… new critical edition and full commentary of the epigrams transmitted under Plato's name. The edition includes for the first time all the epigrams assigned to 'Plato' by the ancient tradition and offers a critical text based on a review of the manuscript tradition and philological work. The …
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Poetry & patronage in the early imperial era : through the eyes of Martial
… thirdly, to consider the intention behind the epigrams directed toward the emperor. This study hopes to show that, whilst allowing for the devices which are inherent to poetry, Martial's epigrams do have some merit as brief sketches of the complex social machinery of patronage. Additionally, it …
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Poetry & patronage in the early imperial era : through the eyes of martial
… thirdly, to consider the intention behind the epigrams directed toward the emperor. This study hopes to show that, whilst allowing for the devices which are inherent to poetry, Martial's epigrams do have some merit as brief sketches of the complex social machinery of patronage. Additionally, it …
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The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (305-384)
… of martyr sites and personally penned numerous epigrams both extolling the virtue of the honored dead and the patronage of the bishopric. Scholarship related to Damasus and his works is typically narrowly focused, considering motive(s) for his actions, his use of specific architecture and/or …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
… cemeteries where multiple contemporary funerary epigrams survive. I reconstruct ancient readings of these texts, emphasizing their dialogue with one another and their contexts. In Chapter 3, I contribute to our understanding of the Greek symposium. I analyze some of our earliest Greek alphabetic …
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Martial's Apophoreta : an introduction and commentary
… deals with the book's title and the order of the epigrams it contains. Another section defends Friedlӓnder' s dating of Book 14 against a recent challenge <Roger A. Pitcher, Hermes 113(1985), pp. 330-339). A study of Martial's use of metre and a survey of the textual tradition along with a new …
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Motiejaus Kazimiero Sarbievijaus religinė poezija /
… covers Sarbievius’s religious odes, epodes, and epigrams. This dissertation aims to thouroughly examine the aspects of Sarbievius’s religious texts that have been traditionally overlooked by other scholars. Sarbievius’s religious poetry is analysed in terms of what and how many intertexts it …
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"Ps.-Seneca ""de Spe"" (Anth. Lat. 415 Riese): Prolegomena, Text, Translation, Commentary"
… The historical process by which the Senecan epigrams came to be attributed to Seneca is traced from Scaliger's editio princeps to the present. Attitudes toward Hope in Roman religion and popular belief are discussed, and De Spe's literary genre (the locus de Fortuna) and models are examined. …
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… such as cups and gems. It does so through Greek epigrams from the Garland of Philip and Latin texts of Petronius, Pliny the Elder, and Martial. This chapter combines close readings of rarely studied Greek literary epigrams with research into epigraphic sources and artefacts. Chapter 5 analyses …
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The prose prefaces of Martial and Statius : a study in literary purpose
… of the ten prose prefaces which head the Epigrams of Martial (AD c45-c96) and the Siluae of Statius (c45-c96). The most remarkable feature of these ten short pieces of prose lies in the field of literary history: these are the first extant instances of collections of verse which are headed …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… temporal perspectives of their constituent epigrams offers a complex source for literary-historical thinking in antiquity. This project examines the temporality of Greek epigram and the experience of reading diachronic difference in the Greek anthological tradition to argue for the …
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Drawn from the Life: Literary Techniques and the Representation of Complex Characters in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum
… ways in which Suetonius makes use of oratory, epigrams, and humour. The fifth chapter looks at how the sexual episodes and escapades of the Caesars provide intimate insights into their personalities beyond being emblems of virtue and vice. All three of these chapters reveal how characters are …
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A critical edition of the manuscript of Thomas Shadwell's 'The Humorists'
… the clear influence on him of some of Martial's Epigrams. The manuscript version of The Humorists and the published version are compared in detail, and an attempt is made to explain the alterations. Many of them are seen to be due to pressure exerted by the whoremasters of the time (possibly …
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Epigrammi di Dioscoride. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento
… and literary analysis of the remaining epigrams belonging to Dioscorides (an Alexandrian poet who flourished during the second half of the 3rd century BC). For each of the works assigned to the aforementioned author, this dissertation provides: i) a critical edition, based on the …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… I explore the new Simonides’ Plataea elegy and epigrams from the Athenian Agora to demonstrate that Greeks employed the Trojan War to parallel the Persian War. I then examine Aeschylus’ Persians and argue that he uses the Iliadic Ajax in order to epicize Athens’ role in the battle of Salamis. …
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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
… parents. Chapter Three looks at funerary epigrams that explicitly state that the deceased girl has been snatched away by Hades for marriage in order to see how parents used the trope of the bride of Hades as consolation and compensation for a lost marriageable daughter. Chapter Four …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… 3 shows that Pliny’s Panegyricus and Martial’s Epigrams 10-12 negatively re-interpret Domitian’s image as produced by his own self-presentation, to forge a new memory of him as “transgressive”. Yet an examination of literary and archaeological evidence from his own reign shows that he was not …
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