Dell'Oro, Francesca

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Dell'Oro, Francesca

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francesca.delloro@unine.ch

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Épigramme et identité étrangère en Eubée : entre disparition des traits locaux et développement de langues de genre
(2020-9)
Dell'Oro, Francesca
This paper addresses the question of how foreigners found a way to express their diversity in inscriptional epigrams through linguistic means (alphabet, dialect, adjectives of provenance, etc.) across the centuries. Ancient Euboea was chosen as a first case-study. This region offers a sub-corpus of 8 (funerary) epigrams for which the foreign origin of the deceased is certain, out of a total corpus of 38 epigrams. While in most epigrams of the 5th century BCE alphabets and dialects seem to provide a means to express an identity associated with a specific locality, in subsequent centuries specific epichoric features disappeared and were not replaced by other means of expressing origin and cultural identity. In the Hellenistic age, as epigram became a literary genre, dialects started to be used as generic features. Although it was then possible to use these dialectal features to express an identity, there are no examples of such a use in the corpus.