Getty Hexameters - Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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

Summary

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC. 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.

Additional text

a stimulating discussion of a range of possible interpretations of the text ... [an] indispensable critical adjunct to the editio princeps.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher A. (Frank Curtis Springer & G Faraone
• Assisted by: Christopher A. Faraone (Editor), Faraone Christopher A. (Editor), Dirk Obbink (Editor), Obbink Dirk (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2013
• EAN: 9780199664108
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966410-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts