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Record Nr.

UNISA996214051803316

Titolo

The Getty hexameters : poetry, magic, and mystery in ancient Selinous / / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-164105-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

881.01

Soggetti

Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism

Greek poetry, Hellenistic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Getty Hexameters' looks in detail at a series of 44 verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the 5th 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.