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Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods / / Andrzej Wypustek



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Autore: Wypustek Andrzej Visualizza persona
Titolo: Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods / / Andrzej Wypustek Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Brill, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
Disciplina: 262.9/2
262.92
888.010209
Soggetto topico: Eschatology, Greco-Roman
Inscriptions, Greek
Sepulchral monuments - Greece
Epitaphs - Greece
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Eschatological Themes in Epigrams -- The Dead As Gods -- The Dead As Heroes -- Marriages with the Gods -- The Deceased As the Chosen Ones and the Lovers of Deities -- The Deceased As the Charges of Deities -- Overview and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Notable Greek Terms.
Sommario/riassunto: In 'Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram. The deceased were presented as eternally young heroes, oblivious of old age and death, as stars shining with an eternal brightness in heavens or in Ether, or as the ones chosen by the gods, abducted by them to their home in the heavens or married to them in the other world (following the examples of Ganymede, Adonis, Hylas and Persephone). The author demonstrates that, for all their diversity, the common feature of these verse inscriptions was the praise of beauty of the dead.
Titolo autorizzato: Images of eternal beauty in funerary verse inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-85441-4
90-04-23320-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812897503321
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Serie: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 352.