Marcellus of Side’s Epitaph on Regilla (<em>IG</em> XIV 1389): an Historical and Literary Commentary

Abstract

New critical edition (with two photographs), Translation, Commentary of Marcellus’ epitaph on Regilla. The commentary shows in particular how the epitaph both preserves ancient attitudes (e.g. to death) and rhetorical devices of eulogy (e.g. the use of mythological exempla) but also innovative (e.g. by attaching new meanings to Greek words). The Historical Introduction sets the poem in its context and explains the background to the death of the woman who is the subject of the epitaph.