Download or read book Greek Epigram in Reception written by Gideon Nisbet and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.