[New-Poetry] epigrams revisited

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_http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/080307-3666.asp_ 
(http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/080307-3666.asp) 
 
Classics researcher brings new meaning to ancient poetry
 
Mar 7/08
 
Classics professor Regina Höschele is providing a new perspective on our  
literary past.
 
By analysing epigrams as books, rather than individually, her research has  
exposed previously unseen connections between epigrams and has demonstrated 
that  when analysed collectively, they are more valuable than originally  thought.
 
According to Höschele, epigrams are “very little poems” that first appeared  
in the eighth century BC, inscribed on tombstones or votive offerings. In 
fact,  “some of the earliest texts in all of western literature are epigrams,” 
Höschele  explained. Over time, these inscriptions evolved to become more 
elaborate and by  the Hellenistic age in the third century BC, poets were writing 
epigrams for  books. Authors began playing with the conventions of epigraphical 
poetry and  some poems even started to develop erotic shadings only seen 
previously in the  form of song.
 
 



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