Herodicus in Babylon: Greek Epigram and the Near East.
This paper deals with the epigram of Herodicus (apud Ath. 5.222a). First it is examined as a piece of Greek literature—with a history, a number of imitators, a Greek intellectual and scholarly context, and the expressive resources of the Greek language. Several cruces are discussed, but the meaning...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 73; no. 6; pp. 949 - 975 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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