Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The author publishes a new inscribed funerary epigram discovered in 2024 in the village of Badınca, near modern Alaşehir (ancient Philadelpheia). The epigram commemorates a woman by the name of Diodora, daughter of Menandros, who died in childbirth at the age of thirty. The epigram is closely modelled on a famous Hellenistic literary epigram by the poet Leonidas of Tarentum, whose dialogue-form was widely imitated in funerary epigrams of the Hellenistic and Roman imperial period.
Source: Journal of Philia
Author: Peter Thonemann
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7127087187
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