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The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition - Mark McClay

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition

Memory and Performance

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Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83378-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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.

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

Introduction: Bacchic verses: poetry and the gold leaves; 1. Mapping memory: Bacchic cults and poetic models; 2. The tomb of memory: epigrams and funerary context; 3. Material genres: amulets and incantations; 4. Gold in the grave: the metal of the tablets.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-83378-0 / 1108833780
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83378-3 / 9781108833783
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