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Cover -- Greek Erotic Epigram: A Diachronic Approach -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Why Write A Book On The Diachronic Study Of Erotic Epigram? -- 2. The Contents Of The Book -- 1. The Lamp As A Vehicle For Exploring The Lover's Emotions -- 1. First Appearances Of The Lamp Motif In Asclepiades -- 2. The Development Of The Motif In The Meleagrian Epigrams -- 3. Outside The Meleagrian Garland: Philodemus And Statyllius Flaccus -- 4. Marcus Argentarius And The Lamp's Prophetic Abilities 5. The Survival Of The Lamp In The Cycle Of Agathias -- 6. Conclusions -- 2 Unboxing Sea And Nautical Metaphors -- 1.1 The Ship-prostituteepigrams And Their Intertextual Background -- 1.2 Alcaeus And The Ship-prostitute -- 1.3 Theognis And Aristophanes: Ship Imagery And The Ambiguities Of Control -- 2.1 The Ship-prostitutein Epigram: Hetaerae Described As Ships -- 2.2 Ships Described In Language Applicable To Hetaerae -- 3.1 Hellenistic Epigram And The Sea Of Love -- 3.2 The Heterosexual Epigrams -- 3.3 The Homoerotic Epigrams 4.1 The Survival Of Sea And Nautical Metaphors After Meleager's Garland -- 4.2 Sea Metaphors In Their Sexual Form: The Case Study Of Automedon Ap 11.29 -- 4.3 Further Examples Of Sexual Sea Metaphors: The Anonymous Ap 11.220 And Rufinus Ap 5.35 -- 4.4 The Sea Of Love In Macedonius Consul Ap 5.235 -- 5. Conclusions -- 3 Comparing The Beloved With The Supreme Goddess Of Beauty -- 1. The Beloved's Praise In The Poetic Tradition: The Limitations Of Hyperbole -- 2. Implied Comparison With Aphrodite: Nossis' Dedicatory Epigrams 3. Hellenistic Queens And Aphrodite: Three Posidippean Epigrams And Asclepiades Or Posidippus Apl (a) 68 -- 4. Asclepiades Or Posidippus Ap 5.194: Indirect Links Between A Non-royalwoman And Aphrodite -- 5.1 Antipater Of Sidon: Staying Within Limits (ap 9.567 And 7.14) -- 5.2 Antipater Of Sidon: Stretching The Boundaries (ap 7.218) -- 6. The 'apotheosis' Of The Motif In The Me