This is an introduction to the ancient genre of epigram, short
poems literally written or inscribed 'on' an object or figuratively
'on' a topic. The authors set out what epigram means and why it
matters, exploring its roots in inscriptions on stone and its
literary flourishing in the Hellenistic world after Alexander. They
trace its migration from Greece to Rome, where its most famous
exponent was Martial, and consider the continuation of Greek
epigram under the Roman empire in the so-called 'Second Sophistic'.
The final chapter shows how Greek epigram achieved new importance
in the nineteenth century as raw material for stories about the
classical past.
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