TY - BOOK ID - 30517843 TI - Lucillio, Epigrammi AU - Lucillius AU - Floridi, Lucia PY - 2014 SN - 05633087 SN - 9783110336160 3110336162 9783110336504 3110336502 3110382768 PB - Berlin : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Epigrams, Greek. KW - Epigrams, Greek KW - Lucillius, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Epigrams, Latin. KW - Epigrammes latines KW - Latin epigrams KW - Greek satire. KW - Lucillius. KW - skoptic epigram. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30517843 AB - This is the first modern commentary devoted exclusively to the epigrams of Lucillius, a prolific Neronian poet who, in spite of being one of the most significant representatives of the Greek satirical epigram, has primarily been studied not for his own value, but for the influence he had on Martial. About 140 epigrams of his survive, mostly in book XI of the Anthology. The volume contains an extensive introduction, a new critical text and translation, and a full literary and philological commentary. While the body of the commentary focuses on the particular, providing literary readings of individual epigrams and a line-by-line linguistic, philological, and stylistic analysis, the introduction deals with Lucillius's identity, the tradition of the text, style, themes, metrics, and cultural setting, and additionally investigates the origins and development of Greek skoptic epigram. Particular attention is paid to the way in which Lucillius engages with the conventions of the genre, often overturning the reader's expectations. In this way, the work explores the paradox inherent to the fact that a poetic form that was by its nature eulogistic (inscriptional epigrams were born in order to record, and thus celebrate, the dedication of an object or the death of a man) ultimately became the genre of mockery and abuse. ER -