An Epigraphical Response to Peter Bing’s Embedded Epigrams
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This article considers epigraphical realities that may lie behind Bing’s embedded epigrams. In the case of the song for Sosibios, I explore an echo of epigraphic verse in the embedded epigram (praise of the dedication’s artistry) and this echo’s possible relationship to a form of that inscriptional motif of self-praise in older epinician. As concerns Simonides’ epitaph and Thales’ dedication, I have imagined ways the epigrams Callimachus quotes (or at least their prose models) might have started life as genuine, if not necessarily very old inscriptions and made their way to the Hellenistic poet.
keywordsAkragas, Callimachus (including: Iambus 1, Sepulcrum Simonidis [fr. 64 Pfeiffer], and Sosibios’ epinician [fr. 384 Pfeiffer]), Croesus, dedication, Delphinion (Miletus), Didyma, embedded epigram, epinician, inscribed epigram, orthography, Peter Bing, rBiografia dell'autoreEmeritus Professor of Classics, Wabash College. Email: Dayj@Wabash.Edu |
