literary analysis of Hellenistic epigrams
Common-sense understanding of penis, penetration, and pleasure has a relatively weak literary-figurative position. Thus the fallacious reign of Phallus. … Read the post truthful, ancient rule of the Phallus: penetration provides pleasure
Ancient Greek epitaphs preserving words of Herais and Sozemene for their husbands show the long history of women’s love for men. … Read the post ancient Greek epitaphs: Herais & Sozomene for their husbands
Roman epitaph from the 2nd century: “To the sacred memory of Julia Galbina; she lived 45 years. Gnaeus Haius Iustus, to his most devoted wife.” … Read the post Roman epitaph to Julia Galbina
In the ancient Greco-Roman world, gods and physicians prompted hope and ridicule from healing inscriptions in Asclepeia to highly literary epigrams. … Read the post gods and physicians in ancient Greek inscriptions and epigrams
The half-eaten man and the fish caught in the net are the whole shipwrecked man, the continually transforming body in an unanchored world. … Read the post the whole shipwrecked man
The Julianus gravestone’s easily understood symbols and its appended epitaph suggest mass-produced Christian gravestones in early Christian Athens. … Read the post Julianus gravestone suggests ancient, mass-produced Christian gravestones
The Asclepiodote, Euphemia, and Athenodora stones from early Christian Athens show a obscure mixture of Christianity and pre-Christian Greek religion. … Read the post Asclepiodote and Euphemia stones from Athens: obscure Christianity
While regarded as an epitaph, the late-Roman Athenodora stone from Athens makes best sense as a dedication for an early Christian church. … Read the post Athenodora Christian stone from Athen’s Panathenaic Stadium
Among other such Hellenistic epigrams, an epigram about Archeanassa of Colophon celebrates the sexual attractiveness of old women. It’s probably mythic. … Read the post Hellenistic epigrams sing sexual allure of old women
A verbal coronis for a poorly copied, reused papyrus roll is a highly literary epigram that probably decorated a Hellenistic-era elite literary parchment. … Read the post visual poetry: a Hellenistic "coronis" epigram