Munere mortis
Studies in Greek literature in memory of Colin Austin
Eftychia Bathrellou, Margherita Maria Di Nino
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Munere mortis
Studies in Greek literature in memory of Colin Austin
Eftychia Bathrellou, Margherita Maria Di Nino
About This Book
Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honor his memory. The papers combine philology and textual criticism with a strong interest in setting the works under examination in their literary and cultural context. Individual contributions are devoted to the establishment of the text of the comic poet Menander and the epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, while one chapter offers a new critical edition of and the first detailed commentary on a number of erotic epigrams. Other essays explore poetic, performative and narratological features in Socratic works of Plato and Xenophon. The volume also includes an analysis of the trope of pathetic fallacy in the bucolic poem Epitaph for Bion and a study of the concept of 'frigidity' in ancient literary criticism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note to the reader
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- PART I: Comedy
- PART II: Poetry in prose/prose on poetry
- PART III: Epigrammatic poetry
- PART IV: Epitaph for a teacher
- 9. Αἴλινά μοι στοναχεῖτε: insights into the exploitation of pathetic fallacy in the Epitaph for Bion: Margherita Maria Di Nino
- Bibliography