“But who art thou?”: Callimachus and the Unsatisfactory Epitaph

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  • Matthew Hosty University of Oxford

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Matthew Hosty, University of Oxford

Junior Research Fellow, Merton College

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Published

2019-05-27

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