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Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest Greek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it continues to inspire and influence modern translations and imitations.
In Greece, epigrams were short sayings and poems placed on tombs of family members and friends. Later they became witter and funnier. Epigrams are short statements that make a funny, memorable, and interesting judgment about a situation, person, emotion, or idea.
For just as readers of inscribed epigram interpret a poem as part of its physical setting (whether a necropolis, a shrine, or the marketplace), so the readers of literary epigram are invited to interpret a given poem in the context of neighboring texts in the very different confines of the scroll.
This paper offers a careful analysis of the text and focuses on the programmatic reuse of epigraphic models and structures, which leads here to a comp lete subversion of the epitymbion schema. In addition, a thorough analysis is offered for the corrupted passages in the last couplet.
we find, in our corpus of literary epigrams, sad epitaphs alongside both serious and parodically solemn dedications, and playfully erotic anecdotes alongside moral maxims, witticisms, and convivial banter. From the earliest days, epigrams had two different origins and two dif-ferent aims: they were both graffiti engraved on cups or vases ...
Epigrams are pithy sayings that compress two antithetical ideas into one polished sentence. The best epigrams contain concise language that presents two antithetical ideas in a mirror-image format. For example, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham exclaims, ‘‘whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.’’.
From the perspective of the history of literature, the analysis of epigraphic poems could help not only to evaluate better late epigraphic poetry from the literary point of view; it would also provide a better understanding of some developments and features of ‘highbrow’ literature.
