Funerary epigrams of ancient Greece : reflections on literature, society and religion
Epigrams, Greek Funeral rites and ceremonies
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2019
EISBN 9781350062450
Introduction.
The funerary landscape : a reflection of the world of the living.
The literary form : tears of Simonides...and of Pindar.
Phrasikleia, Forever a maiden. Kroisos, Whom raging ares destroyed.
How to deprive the year of its spring.
Immortal remembrance of friends.
Wives and their masters.
Powerful enemies : childbirth, the sea.
Rewards for piety...next to Persephone.
Conclusions.
The funerary landscape : a reflection of the world of the living.
The literary form : tears of Simonides...and of Pindar.
Phrasikleia, Forever a maiden. Kroisos, Whom raging ares destroyed.
How to deprive the year of its spring.
Immortal remembrance of friends.
Wives and their masters.
Powerful enemies : childbirth, the sea.
Rewards for piety...next to Persephone.
Conclusions.
