The Muse at Play : Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry /

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Riddles and other word games are widespread in classical literature and played a crucial role in shaping Greek and Roman cultural discourses, yet few efforts have been made to treat them in all their variety and complexity. This volume, the fruit of a conference held in May 2011 by the Institute of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kwapisz, Jan, Petrain, David, Szymański, Mikołaj
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
Colección:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 305.
Temas:
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Riddles in literature.
Plays on words > Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Poésie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Rhétorique ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Greek poetry
Latin poetry
Plays on words
Rhetoric, Ancient
Riddles in literature
Lyrik
Griechisch
Latein
Wortspiel
Greek and Roman Culture.
Greek and Roman Literature.
Neo-Latin Studies.
Riddles.
Word Games.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Muse at Play: An Introduction; I. Discourses of Play; The Sympotic Tease; "You Make Less Sense than a (New) Dithyramb": Sociology of a Riddling Style; Magic Squares, Alphabet Jumbles, Riddles and More: The Culture of Word-Games among the Graffiti of Pompeii; II. The Ancient Riddle: Theory and Practice; What Has It Got in Its Pocketses? Or, What Makes a Riddle a Riddle?; Technopaegnia in Heraclitus and the Delphic Oracles: Shared Compositional Techniques; "Gods Cannot Tell Lies": Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination; Were There Hellenistic Riddle Books?
  • The Rhetoric of the Riddle in the Alexandra of LycophronIn scirpo nodum: Symphosius' Reworking of the Riddle Form; III. Visual Poetry in the Text and on the Stone; The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia; Nicander's Aesopic Acrostic and Its Antidote; Greek Acrostic Verse Inscriptions; Sopha grammata: Acrostichs in Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Arachosia, Nubia and Libya; IV. Case Studies; Versus anacyclici: The Case of P. Sorb. 72v (= adesp. com. fr. 52 PCG); A Palindrome, an Acrostich and a Riddle: Three Solutions; Triple Tipple: Ausonius' Griphus ternarii numeri.
  • v. Playful ReceptionsThe Aulularia inversa of Joannes Burmeister; Waste of Time or Artistic Expression? Notes on poesis artificiosa of the Modern Era; Note on Contributors and Editors; Index of Passages Discussed; General Index.

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