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 unde...

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Main Author:	McClay, Mark F. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Subjects:	Lamellae aureae Orphicae Religious poetry, Greek / History and criticism Religion and literature Memory in literature Material culture / Greece Goldblättchen Bestattungsritus Mysterienreligion Griechenland > Altertum
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 May 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 210 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108982092
DOI:	10.1017/9781108982092