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The Getty Hexameters

Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous

Dirk Obbink editor Christopher A Faraone editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:19th Dec '13

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The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general introduction to the new inscriptions, together with a critical text and English translation, photographs, and drawings. The second section contains a collection of eleven interpretative essays which treat various aspects of the text, including religious and civic context, date and poetic language, transmission, and connections to ancient magic and ritual practice. 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.

a stimulating discussion of a range of possible interpretations of the text ... [an] indispensable critical adjunct to the editio princeps. * Richard L. Gordon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

ISBN: 9780199664108

Dimensions: 222mm x 157mm x 20mm

Weight: 452g

234 pages