Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture

From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called ‘Tomb of Virgil’; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets’ graves, to the ‘graveyard of the imagination’ constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, this volume explores the ways in which the real and imagined tombs of the ancient poets act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry, uniquely positioned as they are between literary reception and material culture.