CLAC11H3 Lecture Notes - Epigram
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Term: epirgram: inscription ?what is an inscription: to write on. Inscription: text written upon an object that is inverse ( it has meter is poetic) : wood, metal, stone. Epigram: short poem on stones, religions offering, or monuments in hexameter / elegic pentameter. Performance of epigram: passerby reads it and he looks upon the object inscribed upon it and placed in given environment : elements go to epigram. 3 epigrams: sepulchral epigram: toom like, one inscribed on a tome or coffin, ^ this epigram is talking about the beauty of the young man and the passerby is directly addressed upon this memorial. Chorus: statue of beautiful young man: dedicatory: inscribed upon an object that is dedicated to a god, it is a speaking object, aesthetic value of the object. Aucibory: brothers of helen: honorific: accomplishment of the group, herodutus : he reports epigrams : thermopoliu(hot gate) : epigram written for their sacrifice of the spartans :
