A New Epigram from the Region of Philadelpheia
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Philadelpheia, Leonidas of Tarentum, Lydia, epigram.Abstract
The author publishes a new inscribed funerary epigram discovered in 2024 in the village of Badınca, near modern Alaşehir (ancient Philadelpheia). The epigram commemorates a woman by the name of Diodora, daughter of Menandros, who died in childbirth at the age of thirty. The epigram is closely modelled on a famous Hellenistic literary epigram by the poet Leonidas of Tarentum, whose dialogue-form was widely imitated in funerary epigrams of the Hellenistic and Roman imperial period.
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