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Look up epigraph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Epigraph may refer to: An inscription, as studied in the archeological sub-discipline of epigraphy
Epigraph
Short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter
literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. The epigraph may serve
Epigraph_(literature)
Region above a graph
In mathematics, the epigraph or supergraph of a function f : X → [ − ∞ , ∞ ] {\displaystyle f:X\to [-\infty ,\infty ]} valued in the extended real numbers
Epigraph_(mathematics)
Study of inscriptions
ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ) 'inscription') is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their
Epigraphy
The Greek-language inscriptions and epigraphy are a major source for understanding of the society, language and history of ancient Greece and other Greek-speaking
Greek_inscriptions
2000 studio album by Ketil Bjørnstad / David Darling
Epigraphs is an album by Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad with American cellist David Darling recorded in September 1998 and released on ECM in 2000
Epigraphs_(album)
of 2012. Each episode of Borgen begins with an epigraph related to that episode's theme; these epigraphs are listed along with the episode summaries below
List_of_Borgen_episodes
In geometry, set whose intersection with every line is a single line segment
real-valued function defined on an interval with the property that its epigraph (the set of points on or above the graph of the function) is a convex set
Convex_set
Season of television series
Simon & Ed Burns Teleplay by : David Simon June 2, 2002 (2002-06-02) 3.70 Epigraph: "...when it's not your turn." -McNulty At the homicide trial of West Baltimore
The_Wire_season_1
1936 book of short stories by Henry Miller
”) begins with an epigraph taken from the respective story which to varying degrees sums up a major theme of the story. The epigraph for “The Tailor Shop"
Black Spring (short story collection)
Black_Spring_(short_story_collection)
1923 political pamphlet by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
of him. In that edition, however, the opening pages feature a Sanskrit epigraph with an English translation, entitled Who is a Hindu?. The sixth edition
Essentials_of_Hindutva
5th episode of the 1st season of The Wire
"The Pager" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American crime drama The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon
The_Pager
Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by ballet master Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques
Antique_Epigraphs
3rd episode of the 1st season of The Wire
"The Buys" is the third episode of the first season of the American crime drama The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David
The_Buys
Short story by Flannery O'Connor
effect of O'Connor's anagogical vision is an epigraph she wrote for "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". The epigraph was published only in the paperback Three
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story)
A_Good_Man_Is_Hard_to_Find_(short_story)
10th episode of the 1st season of The Wire
"The Cost" is the tenth episode of the first season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon
The_Cost_(The_Wire)
Novel about real events overlaid with a façade of fiction
explicit guide to the text by the author—or implied, through the use of epigraphs or other literary techniques. Madeleine de Scudéry created the roman à
Roman_à_clef
11th episode of the 1st season of The Wire
a hunt for a rat in the detail. Dope on the damn table. — Daniels The epigraph refers to the commissioner's desire to seize drug dealers' assets in response
The_Hunt_(The_Wire)
Fantasy fiction series (1968–2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin
(London). February 9, 2004. Retrieved 2011-09. Le Guin, Ursula K. (1969). "Epigraph". The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace Books. Erlich 2010, p. 122. Erlich 2010
Earthsea
Novel by James Ellroy
of his L.A. Quartet series. It is dedicated to Mary Doherty Ellroy. The epigraph is "A glory that costs everything and means nothing"—Steve Erickson. The
L.A._Confidential
Horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft
collaborations written after it) and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis". The
The_Haunter_of_the_Dark
10th episode of the 3rd season of The Wire
"Reformation" is the tenth episode of the third season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon
Reformation_(The_Wire)
Season of television series
Simon & Ed Burns Teleplay by : David Simon June 1, 2003 (2003-06-01) 4.43 Epigraph: "Ain't never gonna be what it was." -Little Big Roy McNulty finds a woman's
The_Wire_season_2
8th episode of the 5th season of The Wire
"Clarifications" is the eighth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by Dennis Lehane from a story by
Clarifications_(The_Wire)
1979 war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola
poem "The Hollow Men." The poem is preceded in printed editions by the epigraph "Mistah Kurtz – he dead," a quotation from Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Apocalypse_Now
9th episode of the 2nd season of The Wire
"Stray Rounds" is the ninth episode of the second season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David
Stray_Rounds
1979 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
retired businessman living during the summer aboard Rochester. The novel's epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre
Offshore_(novel)
1995 novel by John Marsden
day comes a frost, a killing frost..." which also serves as the book's epigraph. After their successful attack on the officers' houses in Wirrawee and
The_Third_Day,_the_Frost
1963 paper by Jacques Derrida
"Cogito and the History of Madness" is a 1963 paper by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida that critically responds to Michel Foucault's book History
Cogito and the History of Madness
Cogito_and_the_History_of_Madness
Chola emperor from 1246 to 1279
Rajendra began to take effective control over the administration, and epigraphs of Rajendra Chola III indicate there was civil war ending with the death
Rajendra_III
1992 book written by Stephen E. Ambrose
Richard D. Winters Robert "Popeye" Wynn The book consists of a foreword, epigraph, and maps section, followed by 19 chapters. There is an afterword and a
Band_of_Brothers_(book)
Fictional character in the Dune universe
de facto narrator in Dune, with excerpts of her later writings used as epigraphs before each chapter of the novel. Within the storyline, Irulan is established
Princess_Irulan
Mathematics of convex functions and sets
study of nonsmooth problems. The tools of convex analysis include the epigraph of a function, the subdifferential, the Legendre–Fenchel transform, and
Convex_analysis
1816–17 book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
also a psychological document of the first importance. — W. H. Auden, Epigraph on Italian Journey The Italian Journey is divided sequentially as follows:
Italian_Journey
1970 film
hour in length and has almost no dialogue. The film's title refers to an epigraph which Melville made up, just as he did in Le Samouraï. In Marseille, a
Le_Cercle_Rouge
Facsimile of the title with the epigraph
The_History_of_a_Crime
Novel by Thomas Bernhard
with the narrator leaving the dinner and deciding to write about it. The epigraph of the novel is a quote from Voltaire: Being unable to make people more
Woodcutters_(novel)
1818 novel by Mary Shelley
Paradise Lost, which the monster has read. Adam is also referred to in the epigraph of the 1818 edition: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me
Frankenstein
1915 poem by T. S. Eliot
that the memory has been obliterated." The draft version of the poem's epigraph comes from Dante's Purgatorio (XXVI, 147–148): 'sovegna vos a temps de
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The_Love_Song_of_J._Alfred_Prufrock
13th episode of the 1st season of The Wire
"Sentencing" is the 13th episode and finale of the first season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon and Ed Burns
Sentencing_(The_Wire)
Leader of China from 1978 to 1989
two-meter high red granite monument stands at the east end of this route. The epigraph is written in Chinese, Russian and Kyrgyz. The documentary, Deng Xiaoping
Deng_Xiaoping
1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gold-Hatted Gatsby and The High-Bouncing Lover came from Fitzgerald's epigraph for the novel, one which he wrote himself under the pen name of Thomas
The_Great_Gatsby
1st millennium BC process
The origins of dʿmt (enunciated as "Da'amat" or "Di'amat") and the role of the Sabaeans of Sheba in ancient South Arabia have long been debated by historians
Sabaeans in the Horn of Africa
Sabaeans_in_the_Horn_of_Africa
Novel by Sonya Hartnett
Children's literature portal Forest is a novel written by the award-winning Australian author Sonya Hartnett. It was first published in 2001 by Viking
Forest_(novel)
Epic historical novel by Cormac McCarthy
Regarding the meaning of the epigraphs, David H. Evans writes that [t]he taking of scalps, as McCarthy's third epigraph suggests, enjoys a profound antiquity
Blood_Meridian
1969 novel by Mario Puzo
popularity in cinema history. Similarly, Puzo opened his 1969 novel with an epigraph popularly attributed to Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a
The_Godfather_(novel)
3rd episode of the 3rd season of The Wire
"Dead Soldiers" is the 28th episode of the American crime drama The Wire, the third episode of the third season. The episode was written by Dennis Lehane
Dead_Soldiers
Novel by Martin Amis
mordant wit, black comedy, and sense of the violently absurd." It has an epigraph attributed to the Cynic Menippus and the novel has been interpreted as
Dead_Babies_(novel)
1931 novel by Graham Greene
Rumour at Nightfall is the third novel by Graham Greene, published in 1931. Like his second novel, The Name of Action, it failed to repeat the success
Rumour_at_Nightfall
1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion
from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. The full poem was an epigraph to the book while only the last six lines from the first stanza were included
Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem
Region underneath a graph
or below its graph. A related definition is that of such a function's epigraph, which is the set of points on or above the function's graph. The domain
Hypograph_(mathematics)
Form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity
A kalos inscription is a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, mainly during the Classical period from 550 to 450 BC. The word
Kalos_inscription
1969 novel by John Fowles
religion. Similarly, by quoting Marx with the first epigraph, along with multiple subsequent epigraphs, the novel directs thematic attention towards the
The_French_Lieutenant's_Woman
Term referring to southern Arabs
ISBN 978-0-41524-466-4. Qahtan are divided into the two sub-groups of Himyar and Kahlan. "Epigraph details: Gr 24". DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian
Qahtanite
Novel by John Steinbeck
novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from the 15th-century English play Everyman, with its archaic
The_Wayward_Bus
Season of television series
Simon & Ed Burns Teleplay by : David Simon September 10, 2006 (2006-09-10) Epigraph: "Lambs to the slaughter here." -Marcia Donnelly Bodie's man Curtis "Lex"
The_Wire_season_4
Season of television series
Ed Burns Teleplay by : David Simon September 19, 2004 (2004-09-19) 1.83 Epigraph: "Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same
The_Wire_season_3
Poem by James Merrill
Richard Howard. It consists of 215 lines with an additional four line epigraph. The poem is mainly in unrhymed pentameter but includes a section in Rubaiyat
Lost_in_Translation_(poem)
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Chongqing, China
statues, with over 100,000 Chinese characters forming inscriptions and epigraphs. The sites are located in Chongqing Municipality within the steep hillsides
Dazu_Rock_Carvings
Adage that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans. In 1952, as an epigraph to the mountaineering book The Butcher: The Ascent of Yerupaja, John Sack
Murphy's_law
Ancient Egyptian stele
during the 18th Dynasty. As was common with other New Kingdom rulers, the epigraph makes claim to a divine legitimisation of kingship. The Dream Stele is
Dream_Stele
Smallest convex set containing a given set
been studied for simple polygons, Brownian motion, space curves, and epigraphs of functions. Convex hulls have wide applications in mathematics, statistics
Convex_hull
1950 novel by Doris Lessing
this section of The Waste Land are quoted to begin the novel, forming its epigraph, to which is added the epigrammatic quotation: "It is by the failures and
The_Grass_Is_Singing
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife. Its epigraph is from John Keats' 1819 poem "The Eve of St. Agnes". In a letter, Lovecraft
The_Outsider_(short_story)
1810 novella by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Passau, shelters Verezzi The Monk The Inquisitor The Superior, a judge The epigraph on the title page of the novel is from Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
Zastrozzi
Property of functions which is weaker than continuity
function on a domain X {\displaystyle X} is lower semi-continuous if its epigraph { ( x , t ) ∈ X × R : t ≥ f ( x ) } {\displaystyle \{(x,t)\in X\times \mathbb
Semi-continuity
Cathedral in Apulia region, Italy
knight armed with shields depicting the noble arm of the House with an epigraph, sculpted by the noble captain Enrico Zurolo (also called Enrico Zurlo)
Co-Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Giovinazzo)
Co-Cathedral_of_Santa_Maria_Assunta_(Giovinazzo)
Fictional book used as a motif by Dean Koontz
of Counted Joys are fictional books "quoted" as the source of various epigraphs in many of Dean Koontz's books. The books as cited sources do not actually
The_Book_of_Counted_Sorrows
Indian mystic (1836–1886)
goal". He is regarded by his followers as an avatar (divine incarnation). Epigraph "I have practised all religions - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity - and I
Ramakrishna
1788 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
Title page from Mary: A Fiction; epigraph by Rousseau reads: "L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus éleve et nourrit le génie" ("the exercise of the most
Mary:_A_Fiction
1958 novel by Lawrence Durrell
held in the McPherson Library at the University of Victoria. Both the epigraphs are from de Sade's Justine; the second, longer one begins: "Yes, we insist
Balthazar_(novel)
1966–1967 wuxia novel by Jin Yong
title as a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, which was used as its epigraph. The story follows a case of mistaken identity involving a pair of identical
Ode_to_Gallantry
Print by Francisco Goya
in the Caprichos as demented, corrupt, and ripe for ridicule. The full epigraph for Capricho No. 43 reads; "Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters
Javanese kingdom (716 AD–1016)
over who would serve the Chinese market. The 787 AD epigraph was in Yang Tikuh while the 774 AD epigraph was Po-nagar. In Kauthara province in 774 AD, Champa's
Mataram_kingdom
2nd episode of the 3rd season of The Wire
"All Due Respect" is the 27th episode of the American crime drama The Wire and the second episode of the show's third season. The episode was written by
All_Due_Respect_(The_Wire)
Latin work of fiction attributed to Petronius
The epigraph and dedication to The Waste Land showing some of the languages that T. S. Eliot used in the poem: Latin, Greek, English and Italian.
Satyricon
Chola emperor from 1122 to 1135
claimed descent from the Karikala Chola who raised the banks of Kaveri in epigraphs (Carana saroruha etc.). A Tamil inscription of the king from Sidlaghatta
Vikrama_Chola
1959 novelette and 1966 novel by Daniel Keyes
for someone to put flowers on Algernon's grave. The novel opens with an epigraph taken from Book VII of Plato's The Republic: Anyone who has common sense
Flowers_for_Algernon
Season of television series
& Ed Burns Teleplay by : David Simon January 6, 2008 (2008-01-06) 1.23 Epigraph: "The bigger the lie, the more they believe." -Bunk Chris gets Serge Malatov's
The_Wire_season_5
1983 novel by Walter Tevis
adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit. The novel's epigraph is "The Long-Legged Fly" by W. B. Yeats. This poem highlights one of the
The_Queen's_Gambit_(novel)
Italian polymath (1452–1519)
May 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2021. Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships epigraph, pp. 148 & 298, N120. Ana Finel Honigman. "Universal Leonardo". Artnet
Leonardo_da_Vinci
1951 mystery novel by Josephine Tey
("Truth is the daughter of time") which is quoted by Tey as the novel's epigraph. Like all aphorisms this proverb has been directly quoted, paraphrased
The_Daughter_of_Time
Bell tower in Gaeta, Italy
are two: the first, on the lower left, reads: L(ucius)•ATRA[tinus] This epigraph gave rise to some fanciful suppositions, including that, according to the
Bell tower of the Gaeta Cathedral
Bell_tower_of_the_Gaeta_Cathedral
Economic gap between northern and southern Italy
Unioncamere data. The topic "The Southern Question", introduced in the epigraph with a famous statement by the southern historian and politician Giustino
Southern_question
Poem by Gonçalves Dias
Goethe's ballad Mignon, and some verses of the ballad are used as the poem's epigraph. Canção do Exílio is one of the most famous poems of Brazilian literature
Canção_do_Exílio
List of Tamil archaeological artefacts and epigraphs
This is a list of archaeological artefacts and epigraphs which have Tamil inscriptions. Of the approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological
Tamil_inscriptions
Country in the Horn of Africa
Greek name was borrowed into Amharic as ኢትዮጵያ, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā. In Greco-Roman epigraphs, Aethiopia was a specific toponym for ancient Nubia. At least as early
Ethiopia
1977 novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
occasionally being advertised as such. The published book opens with an epigraph explaining that "Some of the events narrated herein are real. All the characters
Las_muertas
Idealistic vision of a lost English way of life
tandem with an allusion to the iconic figure of Robin Hood, under the epigraph "St George for merry England!": The beams of the morning sun shining on
Merry_England
Inscribed stone slab, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Хумачка плоча, Хумска плоча / Humačka ploča, Humska ploča) is an Old Slavic epigraph in Bosnian Cyrillic script in the form of a stone tablet, believed to be
Humac_tablet
Ancient script of Central and South Asia
for instance, how they had deciphered the Brahmi letters of various epigraphs from Samudragupta's Allahabad pillar inscription, to the Karle cave inscriptions
Brahmi_script
Governorate of Medina Region, Saudi Arabia
also the capital of the ancient Lihyanites (Dedanites). The Jabal Ikmah epigraphs and petroglyphs are located in the mountains around al-Ula. In 2023, they
Al-Ula
1980 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
story's genre is a mixture of realism and fantasy literature. The novel's epigraph "What river is this through which the Ganges flows?" is quoted from Jorge
The_Beginning_Place
1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Pekka Tammi estimated in 1995 as more than 80 studies. Starting with the epigraph and table of contents, Pale Fire is apparently the publication of a 999-line
Pale_Fire
2005 mock memoir by Bret Easton Ellis
spelled backwards) plot device in King's The Shining. The book carries an epigraph from Hamlet 1.v.98. This connects with the theme of haunting by a father
Lunar_Park
1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
Heart of Darkness Eliot's original choice of epigraph. The poem is preceded by a Latin and Ancient Greek epigraph (without translation) from chapter 48 of
The_Waste_Land
2nd Century AD Roman military commander
te]st(amento) However, some studies (Xavier Loriot and others) tend to read the epigraph as “Armenios” instead of “Armoricos” [13], modifying the spatial (expedition
Lucius_Artorius_Castus
American historical drama film by John Byrum
the same name, the second after Edmund Goulding's 1946 film. The book's epigraph is dramatized as advice from the Katha Upanishad: "The path to salvation
The_Razor's_Edge_(1984_film)
Posthumous and incomplete philosophy book by Hannah Arendt
for "Judgement" at the time of her death were two epigraphs (see image). The first was the epigraph with which she had ended "Thinking": Victrix causa
The_Life_of_the_Mind
Opera by Sergei Prokofiev
mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War_and_Peace_(opera)
EPIGRAPH
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Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Lord Ganesha
Boy/Male
Muslim
Chosen
Biblical
Canaanite
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu, Traditional
Most Beloved Like Gems; Lord Hanuman
Girl/Female
Spanish
Famous in battle. Feminine of Aloysius.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Swiss
Lord Raghavendra
Girl/Female
Hindu
Worshipper of Lord Shiva, Self promising
Boy/Male
Muslim
Wonder
Boy/Male
German
Home Ruler
Girl/Female
Australian, Scottish
Heroic; Fortress; Hill Near the Meadow
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n.
The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.
n.
Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
n.
The science or study of epigraphs.
n.
A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
a.
Alt. of Epigraphical
n.
A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
a.
Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.