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

Author:: Wypustek, Andrzej
Published:: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Physical Description:: xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I.Eschatological Themes in Epigrams -- Alternative Possibilities about the Status of Dead -- Scholarly Debate -- Modes and Means of Production -- Varieties of Experience, Pluralities of Perspectives -- Individualism and Polemic -- Between Uniformity and Diversity, towards Interpretation -- II.The Dead As Gods -- Apotheosis of the Dead in Verse-Inscriptions -- Gods, Heroes, and Humans -- Private Deifications? -- Apotheosis in the Ether -- Epigraphic Testimonies -- Understanding the Broad Circulation -- Astral Immortality -- Apotheosis among the Stars in Verse-Inscriptions -- The Impact of Imperial Ideology -- Elite and Popular Appeal -- III.The Dead As Heroes -- Heroic Iconography: Limits of Testimony -- Hρωσ on Tombs and in Funerary Foundations -- Heroisation in Funerary Epigrams -- The Meaning of ηρωσ -- Immortal Gratitude, with Style -- Heroes, Daemons, and the Dead -- Epigrams and Consolations -- The Diverging Semantic Dimensions -- The Deceased Privileged As Heroes -- IV.Marriages with the Gods -- Gods Abducting Mortals -- Persephone and Hades in Funerary Epigrams -- Mystic Wedding? -- Orphic Hypothesis: Epigram for Theophile -- Persephone, Eleusinia, and the Underworld -- Brides and Bridegrooms in Their Prime -- Abduction of Young, Handsome Adonis -- V.The Deceased As the Chosen Ones and the Lovers of Deities -- `Those Chosen by Deities Die Young' -- Epigraphic Testimonies -- Peculiar Development: Ganymede in Verse-Inscriptions -- Ganymede in Funerary Art -- Spirituality or Carnality of the Myth, or Both -- Zeus, His Thunderbolt, and the Dead -- Death Caused by Lightning -- Between Miracles, Allegories, and Fables -- VI.The Deceased As the Charges of Deities -- Isidora, Hylas and the Nymphs -- The Deceased and Nymphs in Epigrams -- Meaning: Eschatological, not Soteriological -- Koυρoτρoφoι in the Afterlife -- VII.Overview and Conclusions -- Mythological Frame of Reference -- The Lessons of Sarcophagi -- Eschatology and Mythopoeia -- The Beauty and Youth of the Dead in Verse-Inscriptions -- Polyfunctional and Polysemantic Beauty -- The Meaning of True Beauty, the Sense of Divine Abduction -- Celebration of (After) Life.

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ISBN:

9789004233188 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004233180 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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