The book presents an analysis of communicative structures and
deictic elements in Hellenistic dedicatory epigrams. Moving from
the most recent linguistic theories on pragmatics and considering
together both Stein- and Buchepigramme, this study investigates the
linguistic means that are employed in texts transmitted on
different media (the stone and the book) to point to and describe
their spatial and temporal context. The research is based on the
collection of a new corpus of Hellenistic book and inscribed
dedicatory epigrams, which were compared to pre-Hellenistic
dedicatory epigrams in order to highlight the crucial changes that
characterise the development of the epigrammatic genre in the
Hellenistic era. By demonstrating that the evolution of the
epigrammatic genre moved on the same track for book and stone
epigrams, this work offers an important contribution to the ongoing
debate on the history of the epigrammatic genre and aims to
stimulate further reflection on a poetic genre, which, since its
origins in the Greek world, has been successful both in ancient and
modern literary traditions.
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