The beautiful death of women according to the seventh book of Palatine Anthology

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https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_68_5

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Greek funerary epigram, death in childbirth, Hellenistic poetry

Abstract

To become a mother in Ancient Greece could be a very painful and dangerous experience. For some scholars, literary and iconographic sources support the claim of an association in Greek thought between death in childbirth and death in battle. Our approach to this discussion is based on the analysis of thirteen funerary epigrams from the Palatine Anthology (7. 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 462, 463, 464, 465, 528, 729 730).

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Published

2016-12-29

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Vol. 68 (2016)

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