This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram.
Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations proposed..
In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage Contexts of Hellenistic epigrams.
This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram