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The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition - Couverture souple

McClay, Mark

 
9781108987035: The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1108987036 ISBN 13 : 9781108987035
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108987036
ISBN 13 
9781108987035
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
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