Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Christer Henriksén
PART I Epigram: Features and Definitions 19
1 What Is an Epigram?: Defining a Genre 21Mario Citroni
2 A Gallery of Characters: Real Persons and Fictitious Types in Epigram 43Patricia Watson
3 Epigram, Society, and Political Power 59Kathleen M. Coleman
4 Hidden Figures: The Women Who Wrote Epigrams 77Laurel Bowman
5 The Masculine and the Feminine in Epigram 93Lindsay Watson
6 Obscenity in Epigram 111Bret Mulligan
7 The Meters of Epigram: Elegy and Its Rivals 127Llewelyn Morgan
8 Epigram in Epic and Greek Tragedy: Generic Interactions 145Martin T. Dinter
9 Epigram and Satire 163Rosario Cortés Tovar
10 Immanent Genre Theory in Greek and Roman Epigram 179Margot Neger
11 Epigram and Rhetoric 195Nina Mindt
12 Greek Anthologies from the Hellenistic Age to the Byzantine Era: A Survey 211Francesca Maltomini
PART II Epigram in Pre‐Hellenistic Greece 229
13 The Origins of Greek Epigram: The Unity of Inscription and Object 231Joseph W. Day
14 Simonides of Ceos and Epigram in Classical Greece 24Luigi Bravi
PART III Epigram in the Hellenistic World 265
15 The Development of Epigram into a Literary Genre 267Valentina Garulli
16 Anyte’s Feminine Voice: Tradition and Innovation 287Ellen Greene
17 Leonidas of Tarentum 303Jacqueline Klooster
18 Callimachus on the Death of a Friend: A Short Study of Callimachean Epigram 319Benjamin Acosta‐Hughes
19 Asclepiades of Samos 337Alexander Sens
20 Posidippus and Ancient Epigram Books 351Kathryn Gutzwiller
21 Taking Position: Later Hellenistic Epigrammatists 371Annette Harder
22 Meleager of Gadara 389Évelyne Prioux
23 Moving to Rome: Antipater of Sidon, Archias of Antiocheia, Philodemus, and Others 407Annemarie Ambühl
PART IV Latin and Greek Epigram at Rome 423
24 The Beginnings of Roman Epigram and Its Relationship with Hellenistic Poetry 425Alfredo Mario Morelli
25 Catullus as Epigrammatist 441Niklas Holzberg
26 Latin Epigram in the Early Empire 459Christer Henriksén
27 Greek Epigram in Rome in the First Century ce 475Regina Höschele
28 Epigrams in the Graffiti of Pompeii 491Kristina Milnor
29 Martial’s Early Works: The Liber Spectaculorum, Xenia, and Apophoreta 505T. J. Leary
30 Micro to Macro: Martial’s Twelve Books of Epigrams 521Sven Lorenz
31 Carminis Incompti Lusus: The Carmina Priapea 541Eugene O’Connor
32 Pseudo‐Senecan Epigrams 557Alfred Breitenbach
PART V Epigram in Late Antiquity 575
33 The Late Latin Literary Epigram (Third to Fifth Centuries ce) 577Luca Mondin
34 Greek Epigram in Late Antiquity 597Gianfranco Agosti
35 Damasus and the Christian Epigram in the West 615Dennis Trout
36 Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East 633Christos Simelidis
37 Inter Romulidas et Tyrias Manus: Luxorius and Epigram in Vandal Africa 649Anna Maria Wasyl
PART VI The Fortleben of Ancient Epigram 665
38 Epigram in the Later Western Literary Tradition 667Peter Howell
39 The Epigram in Byzantium and Beyond 679Andreas Rhoby
Index 695