The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient SelinousChristopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink OUP Oxford, 2013 - 215 Seiten The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general introduction to the new inscriptions, together with a critical text and English translation, photographs, and drawings. The second section contains a collection of eleven interpretative essays which treat various aspects of the text, including religious and civic context, date and poetic language, transmission, and connections to ancient magic and ritual practice. The volume is the first complete critical edition of the Greek text to appear in print and contains important scholarship for the field of classics from an acclaimed list of contributors. |
Inhalt
GREEK TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE GETTY HEXAMETERS | 10 |
Date Author and Place of Composition | 21 |
From Archetype to Exemplar | 31 |
From Oral Composition to Inscribed Amulet | 57 |
Genesis of a Magical Formula | 71 |
Logos Orphaïkos or Apolline Alexima Pharmaka? | 97 |
Composite Amulet or Anthology? | 107 |
7 Myth and the Getty Hexameters | 121 |
8 The Immortal Words of Paean | 157 |
9 Poetry and the Mysteries | 171 |
The Inscribed Lead Tablet from Phalasarna Crete Inscriptiones Creticae 22235 no xix7 | 185 |
Bibliography | 189 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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