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grbs-16202	Hosty, Matthew	“But who art thou?”: Callimachus and the Unsatisfactory Epitaph	2019	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5130	217	69	The epitaph is surprising in context not because it disproves the whole notion of epitaph, but because it disproves a common and reassuring belief which other epitaphs frequently exploit. 7.522 shows us an unsatisfying encounter with epitaph: a stranger who reads everything a tomb can tell him but is left at a loss how to respond, other than by echoing the commonplace sentiment it 16 E.g. by Pfeiffer, Callimachus II 86, and Gow and Page, HE II 187.	cache/grbs-16202.pdf	txt/grbs-16202.txt