Hidden Presences: Monuments, Gravesites, and Corpses in Greek Funerary Epigram

by Jon Steffen Bruss

Hidden Presences explores the inheritances of Hellenistic literary epigram from the sepulchral sub-genre of inscribed epigram. Divorced from the stone and the burial site, the literary form enjoys a new freedom, but exhibits this independence in a deliberate but creative use of out-of-date themes (notably roadside placement of the monument), subversive use of the inscribed epigrams' attempt to betray the "hidden presence" of the deceased, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042916419
• ISBN13: 9789042916418
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.6"