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Interactive Offerings: Early Greek Dedicatory Epigrams and Ritual

Joseph W. Day

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (1994) pp. 37-74

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[722 words] sacrifice, ritual, sacrifices, sacrificial, festival, rites, religious, altar, rite, procession, gods, cult, sacred, ceremony, rituals, offering, victim, offered, sacrificed, performed, blood, offerings, victims, festivals, purification, animal, burkert, priest, human_sacrifice, bull

[511 words] pindar, poet, victory, poem, praise, pythian, victor, odes, pyth, bacchylides, song, pindaric, olympian, myth, hieron, epinician, nemean, simonides, poetry, lines, paean, passage, farnell, cyrene, bundy, apollo, wilamowitz, bowra, aegina, victories

[470 words] apollo, cult, zeus, temple, athena, pausanias, delphi, sanctuary, athens, oracle, artemis, shrine, sacred, altar, demeter, poseidon, goddess, festival, paus, name, dedicated, statue, athenian, hero, aphrodite, delos, cults, inscription, dedication, city

[394 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[350 words] statue, statues, marble, athena, athens, relief, bronze, parthenon, reliefs, base, sculptures, frieze, archaic, olympia, richter, sculptor, pediment, statuette, sculptors, fifth_century, apollo, attic, works, aphrodite, hellenistic, fourth_century, nike, hermes, torso, ridgway

[277 words] callimachus, epigram, poem, epigrams, poet, poems, poetry, archilochus, hellenistic, poets, anth, simonides, theognis, lines, pfeiffer, aetia, fragment, meleager, callimachean, page, line, hymn, hipponax, poetic, tyrtaeus, palladas, literary, theocritus, elegy, epitaph

[171 words] games, athletic, contest, olympia, contests, victory, race, festival, festivals, athletes, victor, game, athletics, victors, wrestling, stadium, prize, events, olympic, gardiner, competition, pausanias, athlete, boxing, prizes, circus, gladiatorial, olympic_games, spectators, victories

[155 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[146 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[135 words] homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas

[135 words] scene, seated, relief, scenes, woman, holding, standing, shield, behind, holds, vase, stands, front, hands, female, representations, representation, spear, youth, wears, composition, male, painting, warrior, wearing, altar, reliefs, goddess, dionysos, frieze

[125 words] kcai, tcov, icai, passage, kata, kati, kaci, icat, kcti, kait, nepi, kcat, oiov, tflv, epyov, pipilo, ckai, touto, xprjv, xpctv, xprv, otov, tiva, touq, xpcv, kcli, eoti, votto, iepov, tilv

[123 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[92 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[85 words] berkeley, trans, essays, leiden, commentary, los_angeles, ithaca, mass, baltimore, early, politics, ancient_greece, myth, tapa, tradition, clarendon_press, amsterdam, introduction, vols, phoenix, greece, diss, ann_arbor, stuttgart, origins, reading, arethusa, review, routledge, rhetoric

[68 words] inscription, tomb, tombs, fragments, bronze, objects, temple, stone, vases, marble, relief, inscribed, period, graves, statue, coins, early, grave, monument, representing, necropolis, fourth_century, terra-cotta, reliefs, containing, sixth, finds, pottery, insc, belonging

[60 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[57 words] bronze, gold, objects, silver, iron, metal, ivory, ring, beads, rings, pieces, glass, tomb, stone, sword, object, handle, vessels, grave, wooden, weapons, blade, swords, jewelry, collection, shape, piece, bronzes, bowl, helmet

[56 words] narrator, narrative, philodemus, voice, ekphrasis, poem, reading, ecphrasis, text, discourse, speech, audience, visual, poet, reader, poetry, shield, language, painting, apostrophe, neoptolemus, poiesis, deixis, poetic, poems, representation, crates, story, characters, viewer

[55 words] gods, zeus, divine, hesiod, prometheus, earth, hera, apollo, power, justice, prayer, mortal, hermes, athena, mortals, theogony, heaven, muses, goddess, myth, poseidon, poet, olympus, aphrodite, homer, fate, birth, divinity, dike, passage

[55 words] sappho, hesiod, poem, homer, page, alcaeus, poets, fragment, poetry, anacreon, poet, stesichorus, pindar, poems, alcman, fragments, lyric, aphrodite, hymn, lines, lobel, girl, archilochus, ibycus, corinna, simonides, epic, bowra, papyrus, allen

[52 words] painter, vases, vase, attic, beazley, amphora, athens, louvre, arv2, red-figured, krater, hydria, corinthian, boston, fragment, collection, painters, black-figured, lekythos, attributed, band, red-figure, early, painted, steiner, payne, black-figure, kylix, verlag, gmbh

[50 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[49 words] leto, balbilla, memnon, damo, zabughin, bernand, choer, pomponian, balbillus, bernadakis, colossus, agrees, akko, anon, finckh, tasso, codd, kvve, deest, elmb, nath, pomponio, insurgerent, bowie, funisulanus, xatpe, bern, kopvs

[43 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[43 words] tablets, names, lists, tablet, documents, texts, listed, items, records, text, written, name, document, writing, entries, entry, inscribed, item, numbers, recorded, archive, vindolanda, literacy, heading, inventory, archives, official, tokens, letters, groups

[38 words] odysseus, odyssey, homer, penelope, telemachus, suitors, homeric, ithaca, poet, iliad, athena, return, hero, story, circe, eumaeus, menelaus, poem, home, cyclops, phaeacians, polyphemus, beggar, nestor, nausicaa, agamemnon, scene, calypso, epic, athene

[34 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[33 words] a7ro, kata, icat, rapa, rpos, ical, kcal, wpos, wvos, v7re, column, orib, trov, a7roxxo, atea, evov, otos, rozs, ptov, rpls, tovs

[32 words] argos, argive, olympia, geometric, athens, archaic, early, heraion, greece, mycenae, sparta, tiryns, sanctuary, samos, mycenaean, coldstream, laconian, seventh, pottery, hera, pylos, corinth, tiles, eighth, antefixes, heraeum, akhaian, argolid, messenia, perachora

[30 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[30 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[29 words] dance, music, song, dancing, chorus, lyre, musical, performance, songs, singing, dances, choral, sing, dancers, dithyramb, aulos, sung, performed, instrument, flute, dancer, muses, solo, voice, lawler, opera, choruses, hymn, dithyrambic, lillian

[27 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[25 words] magical, magic, curse, tablet, faraone, spell, spells, erotic, tablets, curses, jordan, papyri, defixiones, amulet, texts, pgm2, simaetha, axoa, incantation, amulets, audollent, tabellae, papyrus, repraesentatio, aion, binding, lead, performative, sophron, victim

[25 words] lines, line, words, verse, repetition, word, verses, phrase, position, pattern, beginning, structure, formula, sentence, repeated, effect, phrases, emphasis, metrical, poem, adjective, sense, verbal, clause, caesura, arrangement, passage, verb, preceding, formulae

[23 words] atti, nella, florence, naples, nell, degli, sulla, italia, romano, alla, turin, archeologia, greca, istituto, napoli, onore, ricerche, pisa, bologna, antichita, italian, antico, classica, bari, mondo, sull, cultura, argues, secolo, greco

[23 words] brun, bent, mein, herm, reis, bgk2, fich, herw, tryphon, dobr, wila, elms, dind2, r2iunt, burg, apprentice, iunt, salmo, voss, lent, pors, kust, salmon, trout, beer, coul, seal, valck, bach, koen

[20 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[20 words] diagoras, dictys, umbrian, cake, derveni, kred, dares, athenaios, liknon, atheism, cakes, fireplace, melos, oscan, commentator, credner, tables, iguvium, fertum, likna, resch, winiarczyk, celt, erus, ficla, pomperias, conway, strues, disks, mefa

[20 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[19 words] verb, genitive, plural, accusative, noun, dative, verbs, singular, forms, adjective, construction, nouns, ablative, passive, latin, adjectives, nominative, participle, usage, object, meaning, active, infinitive, uses, words, preposition, neuter, pronoun, sentence, phrase

[18 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[18 words] yevos, avros, avtos, eovos, saw-fish, sternbach, voov, kara, raxato, rypa, tcal, vovs, aeis, musurus, concerned, steph, ical, rapa

[16 words] decree, athenian, athens, tribute, lines, inscription, meritt, decrees, lists, athena, line, treasurers, period, assessment, stele, text, talents, meiggs, athenians, quota, wade-gery, cities, kallias, lewis, attic, hesperia, board, accounts, documents, demetrios

[16 words] augustus, temple, jupiter, cult, emperor, caesar, augustan, mars, triumph, gods, ludi, victory, venus, dedication, romulus, octavian, dedicated, juno, statue, divine, altar, fasti, games, augusti, title, livia, apollo, genius, imperial, divus

[16 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[15 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[14 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[13 words] average, size, numbers, population, high, proportion, data, length, ratio, higher, units, frequency, rate, range, increase, groups, percentage, relative, estimate, amount, lower, statistics, value, significant, approximately, sample, distribution, mean, greater, unit

[12 words] line, letters, lines, inscription, letter, stone, text, name, space, fragment, reading, column, stroke, vertical, word, inscribed, beginning, alpha, sigma, iota, horizontal, epsilon, names, strokes, bottom, written, followed, lower, visible, upper

[12 words] temple, columns, column, building, frieze, capital, parthenon, capitals, temples, doric, ionic, cella, architectural, dinsmoor, blocks, geison, sima, corner, fragments, height, architecture, flank, base, marble, buildings, stylobate, front, hephaisteion, design, block

[12 words] marseille, gallia, langue, arles, entretiens, hardt, benoit, chantraine, glanum, zilao, provence, grecque, classique, flaminica, antiquite, banques, banque, rolland, quebec, prosop, gaul, nimes, gaule, flaminicae, narbonensis, ptol, latine, massalia, aries, oppida

[11 words] imperial, emperor, city, empire, local, official, public, provincial, status, officials, office, cities, emperors, provinces, governor, administration, freedmen, title, service, private, municipal, military, hadrian, augustus, period, rank, inscription, offices, reign, equestrian

[11 words] hippolytus, phaedra, sexual, laughter, nurse, phallus, aphrodite, theseus, priapus, euripides, barrett, aidos, mime, laugh, obscene, adams, henderson, phallic, herodas, penis, joke, vocatives, play, smile, humor, artemis, address, erotic, male, interjection

[11 words] line, hesperia, name, archon, lines, inscription, deme, athens, athenian, meritt, agora, decree, secretary, tribe, demotic, names, kirchner, archonship, prytany, archons, demes, phyle, text, tribal, pritchett, suppl, oliver, ferguson, dinsmoor, period

[10 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[10 words] hymn, hymns, mani, film, riddle, riddles, manichaean, films, processional, fortunatus, sect, baptists, breadth, medieval, sarum, codex, salve, hymnal, liturgical, dies, hiereia, sequences, messenger, elchasai, cologne, symphosius, mani-codex, mozarabic, easter, ruth_ellis

[10 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[10 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[9 words] crete, minoan, knossos, cretan, palace, mycenaean, evans, linear_b, pylos, tablets, thera, signs, aegean, phaistos, kommos, late_minoan, kavousi, period, marinatos, fresco, gournia, mallia, linear_a, palaces, bronze_age, sign, minos, script, pottery, palatial

[8 words] verbal, allen, trach, verbals, sikes, sophocles, schol, hermann, duport, passive, soph, cohn, cant, barnes, lobeck, omentum, agar, silently, verbalia, euripides, tiburti, fragment, instead, canter, herv, voss, schindler, adjective, composita, ludwich

[8 words] sign, sumerian, proteron, hysteron, glossed, lugalbanda, deimel, agga, tammuz, hecatomnids, budge, hecatomnid, ruzicka, pictogram, mausolus, artemisia, jacobsen, macehead, hornblower, kramer, chalmers, geme, enki, chinese, gilgamesh, values, gurus, birhurturri, sepositus, ball

[8 words] name, names, named, etymology, nomen, naming, cognomen, word, his_name, praenomen, hermogenes, etymological, cognomina, latin, wordplay, cratylus, proper_names, patronymic, derived, proper_name, praenomina, nomina, etymologizing, title, etymologies, correctness, gentile, conventionalism, spelling, ethnic

[7 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[7 words] pottery, grave, vases, ware, shape, vessels, graves, geometric, early, decoration, bowls, sherds, shapes, fragments, period, wares, tomb, burial, painted, cups, pots, burials, bowl, decorated, vessel, jars, pieces, vase, handles, protogeometric

[7 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[7 words] verse, accent, syllable, foot, words, word, metrical, syllables, latin, short, caesura, rhythm, line, ictus, hexameter, elision, hiatus, feet, lines, verses, iambic, prose, pause, quantity, metre, position, stress, fourth, forms, trochaic

[7 words] studien, akademie, heidelberg, wissenschaften, sprache, stuttgart, uber, untersuchungen, grammatik, griechen, beitrage, bonn, alten, vols, neue, muller, forschungen, festschrift, handbuch, altertumswissenschaft, klassischen, diss, wien, burckhardt, literatur, lateinischen, lateinische, wilhelm, otto, philologie

[7 words] written, page, text, lines, scribe, codex, manuscript, letters, line, writing, beginning, margin, leaves, papyrus, script, uncial, pages, capitals, manuscripts, words, column, copied, leaf, insular, recto, verses, folia, verso, roll, books

[7 words] synesius, hypatia, roques, lacombrade, cyrene, colluthus, alexandria, andronicus, garzya, hermeias, livrea, waterspout, brother, hermelin, tuesday, amarantus, brothers, dion, amous, ill-fated, jacqueline, eteocypriote, hoche, inflata, vogt, al-marwazi, cyrenaica, euoptius, ijekavski, proclus

[6 words] text, reading, readings, manuscripts, manuscript, edition, error, errors, tradition, scribe, correct, editors, archetype, variants, omitted, emendation, corrected, correction, variant, passages, written, corrections, omission, source, apparatus, corruption, texts, editions, conjecture, copied

[6 words] athenian, slaves, athens, slave, finley, citizen, athenians, citizens, demosthenes, security, slavery, davies, apollodorus, free, classical_athens, property, metics, eisphora, wealth, pasion, apollodoros, hubris, horoi, wealthy, metic, speaker, status, city, cohen, citizenship

[6 words] subjunctive, future, verb, aorist, indicative, clauses, clause, perfect, imperfect, infinitive, optative, negative, tense, verbs, sentence, sentences, tenses, imperative, construction, latin, action, meaning, forms, indirect, participle, relative, force, temporal, expression, conditional

[5 words] metrical, metre, iambic, verse, strophe, lyric, rhythm, anceps, cola, resolution, colon, trochaic, short, meter, verses, syllable, metron, antistrophe, responsion, syllables, dimeter, anapaests, trimeter, trimeters, word-end, glyconic, ionic, dale, dactylic, aeolic

[5 words] army, cavalry, battle, soldiers, military, troops, enemy, infantry, legions, fighting, camp, force, soldier, hoplite, units, phalanx, legion, hoplites, forces, armies, service, warfare, weapons, officers, shields, formation, attack, shield, iuniores, archers

[5 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[5 words] france, bibliotheque, collection, lettres, ecole, siecle, gaule, jean, manuscrits, societe, nationale, acad, henri, grece, tome, grecs, insc, recueil, antiques, bagaudes, cernunnos, bordeaux, monnaies, travaux, saint, pierre, paul, ville, picard, lantier

[5 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[5 words] athens, tyranny, tyrant, herodotus, themistokles, ostracism, solon, cleisthenes, aristotle, tyrants, hippias, athenian, peisistratos, miltiades, kleisthenes, herodotos, plutarch, kimon, perikles, jacoby, peisistratus, archon, thucydides, hipparchus, archonship, androtion, pisistratus, periander, exile, cypselus

[5 words] xocl, linnaeus, xail, xcai, xoct, xaci, syst, theseus, systema, trittyen, xacl, xata, giraldi, xcti, barbari, danai, nymphae, xaxov, aristot, gessner, hederich, heller, muncker, amoen, naturae, ryss, xcal, clipeo, hagberg, hoefnagel