“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.
Main Author: | Hosty, M |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Duke University
2019
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