Lament in Verse Epitaphs from Hellenistic Itanos

Itanos on Crete produced a striking dossier of inscribed Hellenistic elegiac epitaphs. The three longest echo the motifs and dialogic or antiphonal structure of sung lament or literary representations of it, and they recall the circumstances of lament performance. Readers thus created a simulacrum o...

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Main Author: Joseph W. Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2025-08-01
Series:Synthesis (La Plata)
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Online Access:https://www.synthesis.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/15440
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