Getty Hexameters

Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-966410-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faraone, Christopher A

Faraone, Christopher A.

Obbink, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Greek Text and Translation

- Photographs and Drawings

- 1: Jan Bremmer: The Getty Hexameters: Date, Author, Place of Composition

- 2: Richard Janko: The Language of the Hexameter Verses from Selinous Variants and Archetypes

- 3: Christopher A. Faraone: Spoken and Written Boasts in the Getty Hexameters

- 4: Alberto Bernabé: The Ephesia grammata: Genesis of a Magical Formula

- 5: The Ephesia grammata: Logos Orphaïkos or Apolline Alexima Pharmakaa

- 6: Magical Verses on a Lead Tablet: Amulet or Anthologya

- 7: Sarah Iles Johnston: Myth and the Getty Hexameters

- 8: Ian Rutherford: The Immortal Words of Paean

- 9: Dirk Obbink: Poetry and the Mysteries

- Appendix: The Lead Tablet from Phalasarna

- Bibliography

- Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher A. Faraone is Frank Curtis Springer & Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago

Dirk Obbink is University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature and Tutorial Fellow in Greek, Christ Church College, University of Oxford