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

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, o...

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Main Author: Wypustek, Andrzej.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 352.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Eschatology, Greco-Roman.

Inscriptions, Greek.

Sepulchral monuments > Greece.

Epitaphs > Greece.