Greek Epigram and its Reception

Harvard FAS

Discussion and presentations on epigrams of the Greek Anthology, chiefly those of the Hellenistic period (3rd c. to 1st c. BCE), with reception in Catullus, Horace, Martial, Latin Anthology; embedding in more capacious genres; in Greek epigram of the imperial, late antique and Byzantine periods; in humanist poets of the Renaissance and early modern periods (Poliziano, Florent Chrétien, Pontano, Marullo); English poetry of the 17th c. (Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell,…