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This study of the gooi or personal laments in Homer´s Iliad once and for all articulates the poetic techniques regulating this type of speech. Going beyond the tendency to view lament as a repetitive and group-based activity, this work shows instead the primacy of the goos, a sub-genre which the Iliad has „produced“ by absorbing the funerary genre of lament. Oral theory, narratology, semiotics, rhetorical analysis are deftly applied to explore the ways personal laments develop principal epic themes and unravel narrative threads weaving the thematical texture of the entire Iliad (and beyond): the wrath of Achilles, the deaths of Patroclus and Hector, the grief of Achilles and his future death, the foreshadowing of Troy´s destruction. Winner of the Annual Award in Classics (2007) of the Academy of Athens.

Τhis book includes 20 articles and chapters on Homer, Hesiod, the Epic Cycle, and the performance of epic. The main topics are Homer's diction, meter, word-localization, textual issues, motif-transference, and the sources of Homeric epic; poetics and the role of sound in Hesiodic poetry; the gods in Cyclic epic, the Theban epics, the Cypria, and the Telegony; singers and rhapsodes, the performance of epic poetry in the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Periods.

This is the first full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic of the archaic period since G. It includes introduction to the relevant authors and poems, Greek text, translation, detailed commentary, index of the sources transmitting these texts, and a comparatio numerorum with all the previous major editions.

Fourth-century Attic grave epigrams reflect a transitional phase in the evolution of the genre of epigram. They testify to a shift of interest towards social issues such as the family, the deceased’s age and profession. In a turbulent period of restlessness and uncertainty that followed the devastating Peloponnesian war, the commemoration of the departed in private monuments became an effective mechanism of displaying publicly a new set of social concerns. It is within these contexts that special emphasis has been put on the composition of sepulchral epigrams, their gradual autonomization and sophistication. This book explores this decisive phase in the evolution of the epigram by reconstructing as many ancient contexts as possible on the one hand, and studying sepulchral epigrams as a poetic art on the other.