Download or read book Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods written by Andrzej Wypustek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Privileges of Death: Images of Immortality in Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram in the 1st-3rd centuries AD.