Musa Lapidaria: A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions (American Classical Studies).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good conditon - A selection necessarily raises the question of the principle of choice. One decision was to choose poems preserved complete, or at least complete enough for the situation behind them to be clear (this ruled out e.g. the intriguing CLE 1178). Another was that anything overtly Christian in content should be excluded, not because of any desire to erect intellectual boundaries but simply as a practical means of limiting the vast field and retaining a semblance of coherence and unity. Beyond that it was not my primary aim that my selection should be representative, since it then would have been necessary to include many trivial and repetitive items, particularly in the area of epitaphs. Rather I have chosen those poems from which there was most to be learned, or which seemed to me to stand out in some way. For convenience I have classified them under broad headings, so that at least the reader can see the most noteworthy specimens of any type in which he may be interested. Of course the poems often could be classed under either of two headings or headings other than those which I have chosen; some may miss a section on Women, but this would have been amorphous because of the large number of epitaphs devoted to them. When I wrote my Fragmentary Latin Poets I did not know that my next book would be this one; this has had the regrettable result that the boundaries between the two fluctuate a little. ISBN 9780788501418