“But who art thou?”: Callimachus and the unsatisfactory epitaph

Callimachus’ Anth.Pal. 7.522, by withholding from the passer-by any effective information about the dead, is consistent with the bleak sequence 517-525, whose theme is the vacuity of any afterlife.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hosty, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Duke University 2019