Mark McClay

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition

Memory and Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108987035
• ISBN-10: 1108987036
• Artikelnr.: 72880876

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.