The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance - Couverture rigide

McClay, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108833780 ISBN 13 : 9781108833783

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Bacchic gold tablets are a remarkable collection of objects from the Ancient Greek world: inscribed with short verse texts and buried in graves of mystery initiates, they express extraordinary hopes for post-mortem salvation. Past approaches to these objects have sought to reconstruct their underlying belief system. This book is the first to examine them primarily within the context of early Greek poetry and performance culture. The patterns of thought and expression in the tablets find instructive poetic antecedents and analogies, including in non-canonical and inscribed genres that are not included in conventional descriptions of the poetic tradition. Applying a range of analytical approaches from the fields of epigraphy, anthropology, and religious studies, this book ultimately uses the tablets to cast more familiar literature in a new light.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

MARK F. MCCLAY is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108833780
• ISBN 13: 9781108833783
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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