caa a22 4500 386376476 CHVBK 20180307112020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632029 doi S007542690001257X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632029 Day Joseph W. Wabash College Crawfordsville Indiana 47933 Rituals in stone: early Greek grave epigrams and monuments [Elektronische Daten] [Joseph W. Day] The goal of this paper is to increase our understanding of what archaic verse epitaphs meant to contemporary readers. Section I suggests their fundamental message was praise of the deceased, expressed in forms characteristic of poetic encomium in its broad, rhetorical sense, i.e., praise poetry. In section II, the conventions of encomium in the epitaphs are compared to the iconographic conventions of funerary art. I conclude that verse inscriptions and grave markers, not only communicate the same message of praise, but do so in a formally parallel manner. Section III, drawing on Pindar as a preserver of archaic thinking, attributes the parallelism between verse epitaph and grave marker to their common debt to funerary ritual. The epigrams will be seen to share with their monuments the goal of memorializing this ritual. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 16-28 0075-4269 109<16 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632029 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632029 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Day Joseph W. Wabash College Crawfordsville Indiana 47933 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 16-28 0075-4269 109<16 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge