Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

Zusatztext Peter Liddel and Polly Low have done us all a great service by assembling this extremely useful and well-produced volume of essays ... The volume should become the standard handbook on the subject, and one can only hope that it will be regularly updated. It is difficult to offer anything other than praise for this collection. Informationen zum Autor Peter Liddel is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester.Polly Low is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 P. Low Liddel, Peter Liddel
• Assisted by: Low Polly (Editor), Peter Liddel (Editor), Polly Low (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.09.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
• EAN: 9780199665747
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966574-7
• Pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu; Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu
• Subjects: Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval