Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature offers a broad set of perspectives on the diverse forms of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.This collection of essays explores the various ways in which ancient authors used inscribed texts and documents. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres, such as oratory, philosophy, poetry, and historiography, discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. They deployed them as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, individual morality, and piety, and even to express moral views about the nature of epigraphy.

Summary

From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. This volume offers a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the diversity of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Liddel, Peter P. Low Liddel
• Assisted by: Peter Liddel (Editor), Polly Low (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199665747
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966574-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu; Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity