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Despite the large number of early Greek inscribed epigrams and their historical and social importance, modern studies have focused either on the literary epigram or (especially after the publication of Hansen?s Carmina Epigraphica Graeca) on the inscribed funerary epigram. The dedicatory inscribed epigram, on the other hand, has received little scholarly attention. As a result, neither a comprehensive commentary nor a study of the different features (archaeological, epigraphical, literary and linguistic) of Archaic and Classical inscribed verse dedications has appeared to date. This book aims to fill such a significant void by offering an interdisciplinary commentary on all the early Attic dedicatory epigrams, i.e. those dating from the 7th through the 5th century BCE. Since the message conveyed by an inscribed epigram can be understood only by taking into account three different semantic systems ? that of art and archaeology, epigraphy, and that of language and style ? at the same time, this commentary will combine a description of the morphology of the monuments on which the epigrams were engraved with an analysis of the alphabets and dialects used in the poems, while making observations on stylistic and literary data.

Epigrams, Greek --- Epigrammes grecques --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Sepulchral monuments --- Epigrams, Greek - History and criticism --- Sepulchral monuments - Greece --- Greek archaic inscriptions --- Athens in the Archaic and Classical period --- Attic dialect --- Greek dedicatory epigrams

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Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature.

Greek language --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern) --- Epigrams, Greek --- Style --- Diction --- History and criticism --- Epigrams, Greek. --- Greek epigrams --- Greek language - Style - Congresses --- Greek language - Diction - Congresses --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern) - History and criticism - Congresses --- Epigrams, Greek - History and criticism - Congresses --- Hardback --- Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft --- Greek epigram --- diction --- inscriptions --- literary style --- PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke --- 1553: Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Altertum --- Greek epigram. --- diction. --- inscriptions. --- literary style. --- Dialect poetry, Greek (Modern). --- Epigramm. --- Grec (Langue) --- Griechisch. --- Literarische Form. --- Literarischer Stil. --- Mundartliteratur. --- Épigrammes grecques --- Criticism, Textual. --- History and criticism. --- Diction. --- Style. --- Histoire et critique.