Maria Kanellou was born in Athens and studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at UCL. She is currently Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and has previously worked at UCL, KCL, the University of Kent, and OUC. She has co-organized various international conferences focusing on Greek epigram and Theocritus and is currently working on the publication of the proceedings; her doctoral thesis, which offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of erotic epigram, is also under contract for publication by OUP.Ivana Petrovic was born in Belgrade and studied at Belgrade University, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, and Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen. She has taught at Heidelberg, Giessen, and, most recently, at Durham University, and is now Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests embrace ancient Greek literature, religion, and cultural history, and also South-Slavic traditional oral poetry, with a particular focus on the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious, and social contexts.Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and has also taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law and is currently working on a commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

In conclusion, this volume, as I mention at the beginning of my review, serves as a valuable - worth reading - supplement of Greek epigram since it explores its literary evolution and its consequent reception through late antiquity; many perspectives and functions are discussed, such as the different kinds of this literary genre, its form and its nature, that deserve further attention from modern scholarship. Well-known scholars, experts of epigrams, gather their knowledge to offer their audience valuable details about epigram anthologies, compilations and paratexts, as well as many literary aspects, such as the ekphrasis and the visual act of reading; I totally recommend this intriguing book that raises further questions worthy to be explored not only by Academics and students, but also by anyone who wishes to learn about the Greek epigram from its acme during Hellenistic period down to its reception in the early Byzantine era.

• Frontmatter List of Figures List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey: Introduction Part 1: Encountering Epigram 2: Joseph Day: Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram 3: Andrej Petrovic: Lessons in Reading and Ideology: On Greek Epigrams in Private Compilations of the Hellenistic Age 4: Regina Höschele: A Garland of Freshly Grown Flowers: The Poetics of Editing in Philip's Stephanos 5: Kristoffel Demoen: Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext Part 2: Imitation, Variation, Interaction 6: Annette Harder: Miniaturization of Earlier Poetry in Greek Epigrams 7: Charles S. Campbell: Variations on Simplicity: Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum in Philip's Garland 8: Simone Beta: The Riddles of the Fourteenth Book of the Palatine Anthology: Hellenistic, Later Imperial, Early Byzantine, or Something More? Part 3: Writing Death 9: Richard Hunter: Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary? 10: Silvia Barbantani: Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness 11: Doris Meyer: Tears and Emotions in Greek Literary Epitaphs 12: Michael A. Tueller: Sea and Land: Dividing Sepulchral Epigram Part 4: Gods, Religion, and Cult 13: Marco Fantuzzi: Epigrammatic Variations/Debate on the Theme of Cybele's Music 14: Kathryn Gutzwiller: Dreadful Eros, Before and After Meleager Part 5: Praise and Blame 15: Maria Kanellou: Mythological Burlesque and Satire in Greek Epigram - A Case Study: Zeus' Seduction of Danae 16: Federica Giommoni: Epigrams on the Persian Wars: An Example of Poetic Propaganda 17: Joseph M. Romero: 'From Atop A Lofty Wall . . .': Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Literary Epigram Part 6: Words and Images 18: Lucia Floridi: Greek Skoptic Epigram, Ecphrasis, and the Visual Arts 19: Peter Bing: Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm: Palladas' Epigrams on Statues 20: Steven D. Smith: Art, Nature, Power: Garden Epigrams from Nero to Heraclius Endmatter Bibliography Index

Maria Kanellou was born in Athens and studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at UCL. She is currently Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and has previously worked at UCL, KCL, the University of Kent, and OUC. She has co-organized various international conferences focusing on Greek epigram and Theocritus and is currently working on the publication of the proceedings; her doctoral thesis, which offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of erotic epigram, is also under contract for publication by OUP.Ivana Petrovic was born in Belgrade and studied at Belgrade University, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, and Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen. She has taught at Heidelberg, Giessen, and, most recently, at Durham University, and is now Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests embrace ancient Greek literature, religion, and cultural history, and also South-Slavic traditional oral poetry, with a particular focus on the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious, and social contexts.Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and has also taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law and is currently working on a commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

In conclusion, this volume, as I mention at the beginning of my review, serves as a valuable - worth reading - supplement of Greek epigram since it explores its literary evolution and its consequent reception through late antiquity; many perspectives and functions are discussed, such as the different kinds of this literary genre, its form and its nature, that deserve further attention from modern scholarship. Well-known scholars, experts of epigrams, gather their knowledge to offer their audience valuable details about epigram anthologies, compilations and paratexts, as well as many literary aspects, such as the ekphrasis and the visual act of reading; I totally recommend this intriguing book that raises further questions worthy to be explored not only by Academics and students, but also by anyone who wishes to learn about the Greek epigram from its acme during Hellenistic period down to its reception in the early Byzantine era.

• Frontmatter List of Figures List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey: Introduction Part 1: Encountering Epigram 2: Joseph Day: Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram 3: Andrej Petrovic: Lessons in Reading and Ideology: On Greek Epigrams in Private Compilations of the Hellenistic Age 4: Regina Höschele: A Garland of Freshly Grown Flowers: The Poetics of Editing in Philip's Stephanos 5: Kristoffel Demoen: Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext Part 2: Imitation, Variation, Interaction 6: Annette Harder: Miniaturization of Earlier Poetry in Greek Epigrams 7: Charles S. Campbell: Variations on Simplicity: Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum in Philip's Garland 8: Simone Beta: The Riddles of the Fourteenth Book of the Palatine Anthology: Hellenistic, Later Imperial, Early Byzantine, or Something More? Part 3: Writing Death 9: Richard Hunter: Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary? 10: Silvia Barbantani: Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness 11: Doris Meyer: Tears and Emotions in Greek Literary Epitaphs 12: Michael A. Tueller: Sea and Land: Dividing Sepulchral Epigram Part 4: Gods, Religion, and Cult 13: Marco Fantuzzi: Epigrammatic Variations/Debate on the Theme of Cybele's Music 14: Kathryn Gutzwiller: Dreadful Eros, Before and After Meleager Part 5: Praise and Blame 15: Maria Kanellou: Mythological Burlesque and Satire in Greek Epigram - A Case Study: Zeus' Seduction of Danae 16: Federica Giommoni: Epigrams on the Persian Wars: An Example of Poetic Propaganda 17: Joseph M. Romero: 'From Atop A Lofty Wall . . .': Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Literary Epigram Part 6: Words and Images 18: Lucia Floridi: Greek Skoptic Epigram, Ecphrasis, and the Visual Arts 19: Peter Bing: Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm: Palladas' Epigrams on Statues 20: Steven D. Smith: Art, Nature, Power: Garden Epigrams from Nero to Heraclius Endmatter Bibliography Index

Maria Kanellou was born in Athens and studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at UCL. She is currently Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and has previously worked at UCL, KCL, the University of Kent, and OUC. She has co-organized various international conferences focusing on Greek epigram and Theocritus and is currently working on the publication of the proceedings; her doctoral thesis, which offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of erotic epigram, is also under contract for publication by OUP.Ivana Petrovic was born in Belgrade and studied at Belgrade University, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, and Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen. She has taught at Heidelberg, Giessen, and, most recently, at Durham University, and is now Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests embrace ancient Greek literature, religion, and cultural history, and also South-Slavic traditional oral poetry, with a particular focus on the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious, and social contexts.Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and has also taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law and is currently working on a commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

In conclusion, this volume, as I mention at the beginning of my review, serves as a valuable - worth reading - supplement of Greek epigram since it explores its literary evolution and its consequent reception through late antiquity; many perspectives and functions are discussed, such as the different kinds of this literary genre, its form and its nature, that deserve further attention from modern scholarship. Well-known scholars, experts of epigrams, gather their knowledge to offer their audience valuable details about epigram anthologies, compilations and paratexts, as well as many literary aspects, such as the ekphrasis and the visual act of reading; I totally recommend this intriguing book that raises further questions worthy to be explored not only by Academics and students, but also by anyone who wishes to learn about the Greek epigram from its acme during Hellenistic period down to its reception in the early Byzantine era.

• Frontmatter List of Figures List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey: Introduction Part 1: Encountering Epigram 2: Joseph Day: Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram 3: Andrej Petrovic: Lessons in Reading and Ideology: On Greek Epigrams in Private Compilations of the Hellenistic Age 4: Regina Höschele: A Garland of Freshly Grown Flowers: The Poetics of Editing in Philip's Stephanos 5: Kristoffel Demoen: Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext Part 2: Imitation, Variation, Interaction 6: Annette Harder: Miniaturization of Earlier Poetry in Greek Epigrams 7: Charles S. Campbell: Variations on Simplicity: Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum in Philip's Garland 8: Simone Beta: The Riddles of the Fourteenth Book of the Palatine Anthology: Hellenistic, Later Imperial, Early Byzantine, or Something More? Part 3: Writing Death 9: Richard Hunter: Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary? 10: Silvia Barbantani: Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness 11: Doris Meyer: Tears and Emotions in Greek Literary Epitaphs 12: Michael A. Tueller: Sea and Land: Dividing Sepulchral Epigram Part 4: Gods, Religion, and Cult 13: Marco Fantuzzi: Epigrammatic Variations/Debate on the Theme of Cybele's Music 14: Kathryn Gutzwiller: Dreadful Eros, Before and After Meleager Part 5: Praise and Blame 15: Maria Kanellou: Mythological Burlesque and Satire in Greek Epigram - A Case Study: Zeus' Seduction of Danae 16: Federica Giommoni: Epigrams on the Persian Wars: An Example of Poetic Propaganda 17: Joseph M. Romero: 'From Atop A Lofty Wall . . .': Philosophers and Philosophy in Greek Literary Epigram Part 6: Words and Images 18: Lucia Floridi: Greek Skoptic Epigram, Ecphrasis, and the Visual Arts 19: Peter Bing: Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm: Palladas' Epigrams on Statues 20: Steven D. Smith: Art, Nature, Power: Garden Epigrams from Nero to Heraclius Endmatter Bibliography Index