Greek Epigram in Reception

Greek Epigram in Reception

Author: Gideon Nisbet

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0199662495

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Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.