Sphragis (literary device)
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Sphragis (literary device)
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Sphragis is a modern term in literary theory and classical philology used to describe a literary device employed mainly in the classical world, in which an author names or otherwise identifies himself, most often at the beginning or the end of a poem or collection of poems. In the broader sense, it can refer to any technique when an author tries to hide his name or a reference to his identity in an encrypted manner. The meaning of the word in the original literary contexts, however, is still not
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Explicit authorial statement in which an author identifies himself or herself
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphragis_(literary_device)
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2023-07-22T12:58:39Z
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