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Poets and Poetics in Greek Literary Epigram

Campbell, Charles
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384333736

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2013, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Classics.
This dissertation offers a new analysis of the treatment of poets and poetics in Greek literary epigram from the early Hellenistic Period (3rd century BCE) down to the early Roman Imperial Period (1st century CE). In their authorial self-representations (the poetic ego or literary persona), their representation of other poets, and their thematization of poetry more generally, literary epigrammatists define, and successively redefine, the genre of epigram itself against the background of the literary tradition. This process of generic self-definition begins with the earliest literary epigrammatists' fusion of inscriptional epigram with elements drawn from other genres, sympotic and erotic poetry and heroic epic, and their exploitation of the formal and conceptual repertoire of epigram to thematize poetic discourse. With the consolidation of the epigrammatic tradition in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE, the distinctively epigrammatic poetic discourse that had evolved in the 3rd century BCE was subsumed into the persona of the poet himself, who is now figured as the very embodiment of the epigrammatic tradition and genre. In the first century BCE, as epigram was transplanted from Greece to the new cultural context of Roman Italy, the figure of the epigrammatist served to articulate the place of both poetry and the poet in this new world.
Kathryn Gutzwiller, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Lauren Ginsberg, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Daniel Markovic, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
267 p.
Classical Studies
Greek; Poetry; Epigram; Hellenistic; Leonidas; Allusion

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  • Campbell, C. (2013). Poets and Poetics in Greek Literary Epigram [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384333736

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Campbell, Charles. Poets and Poetics in Greek Literary Epigram. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384333736.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Campbell, Charles. "Poets and Poetics in Greek Literary Epigram." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384333736

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