VERBALIZING/VISUALIZING: THEATRICAL MASKS AND THE GREEK EPIGRAM

摘要

Within the larger category of epigrams referring to the theatre and the even widernfamily of epigrams focussing on literature and its practitioners, five epigrams turn tonthe mask: Asclepiades 27 Gow–Page = AP 6.308; Callimachus 26 G–P = AP 6.310nand 27 G–P = AP 6.311; and Dioscurides 22 G–P = AP 7.37 and 23 G–P = AP 7.707.nMarco Fantuzzi has recently discussed the ‘theatrical’ epigrams as a subset of ‘annentire Hellenistic vogue for epigrams on great literary figures of the past’.n1 This voguenwas certainly akin to ‘contemporary projects of literary classification’,n2 whichnstemmed from an impulse to celebrate, but more importantly to master, control andneventually assert oneself over the daunting achievements of the past.