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Chapter | Strategie per non dimenticare

Strategie per non dimenticare

Nomi, virtù e ricordo dei defunti nell’epigramma funerario greco

Abstract

This paper shows some devices used in Greek funerary epigrams to underline the name of the deceased, i.d. the most important element of the sepulchral text, which allows him to be remembered: its unusual absence, an emphatic position within the epigram, the word play with the virtues and qualities of the laudandus, the comparison with historical, mythological, and biblical characters who had the same name. The analysis proposes several examples of inscriptional epigrams, most of all from classical Athens, late antiquity, and Christianity.


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Submitted: Oct. 6, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Names • Greek epigram • Virtues

Copyright © 2016 Alice Franceschini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-110-2/S&R-2-1


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