The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition : Memory and Performance

by: McClay, M.F.

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The Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition : memory and performance
Author:Mark McClay

Examines a collection of gold tablets, products of Greek mystery religions offering post mortem salvation, and reads them in the performance context and thought of early Greek poetry. Applies a range of new analytical tools to these materials, including approaches from epigraphy and religious studies

Contents:
Introduction : Bacchic verses-poetry and the gold leaves
Mapping memory : Bacchic cults and poetic models
The tomb of memory : epigrams and funerary context
Material genres : amulets and incantations
Gold in the grave : the metal of the tables

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition : Memory and Performance

by: McClay, M.F.

• ISBN-13: 9781108833783 / 978-1-108-83378-3
• ISBN-03: 1108833780 / 1-108-83378-0
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

Price: 105,15 EURO

1 copy in stock