Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This
edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect diction and style in
Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by
international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of
dialectical variation the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary the employment
of hapax legomena the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter syntactical
patterns arrangement of words riddles) the various categories of style in sepulchral
philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams and the idiosyncratic diction of
inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between
the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation as well as for scholars keen to
understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristictool for the study of
literature.
