Hard verses and soft books: the materials of elegy
Beginning from the play with sepulchral epigram in Propertius 1 and 2, the paper explores the enormous variety of ways in which elegy presents itself as material (and immaterial) text. Writing can be done with stylus or pen and ink, a chisel or a knife, tears, charcoal or milk; and on bronze, marble...
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Brill
2018
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