Les Moires dans les épigrammes funéraires grecques

This paper consists of a study of the representation of the Moirai in Greek funerary epigrams. We will first study the oldest representations of the Moirai, those we find in Homer’s epic poetry, then those in the poetry of his successors, represented in particular by Hesiod and Pindar. Afterward, we will examine how the epigrammatists, whose poetic practice follow to a great extent the poetry of Homer and his successors, represented the goddesses of fate in their compositions. Thus, we will be able to see that, if the epigrammatist painted the Moirai under their traditional features, they appear