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Laughing in the Face of Death: a Survey of Unconventional Hellenistic and Greek-Roman Funerary Verse-Inscriptions

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Summary

Starting from late Classical-early Hellenistic age a series of witty, lighthearted and irreverent funerary verse-inscriptions aiming to produce some effect of amusement or laughter appeared on a number of monuments, reaching their apogee during Greek-Roman era. Most of them originated in Asia Minor and Rome. Some earliest examples were related to widespread hedonistic exhortations on tombs. Their later ramifications, consisting of ironical or playful expressions, amusing puns and instances of black humour, were written in a more satirical vein, except with inscriptions dedicated for animals that were rife with sentimental motifs. Remarkably diverse as they were, such verse-inscriptions cannot be defined in terms of a distinctly separate, continuous tradition, but they shared some common features. Lacking – for the most part – conventional and formulaic elements, they struck us as heavily individualised, which sets them apart from the mainstream tradition of funerary poetry. This in turn might shed some light on social standing or/and mentality of individuals who opted for such expressive ways of remembering the dead.

Acknowledgements

This paper presents a thoroughly revised, largely rewritten and expanded version of a paragraph included in my monograph “Bogowie, herosi i wybrańcy. Wizerunek zmarłych w greckich epigramach nagrobnych epoki hellenistycznej i grecko-rzymskiej”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2011 (Monografie Fundacji Nauki Polskiej), 134–158. All the translations are my own, unless otherwise stated.

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