| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 305 |
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 305.
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| Contents |
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? |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw, gathers contributions on a range of topics linked by the theme of linguistic play. With its broad spectrum of approaches, the book serves as companion to a fascinating but somewhat neglected area of ancient culture - the domain of the Playful Muse |
| Analysis |
Greek and Roman Culture |
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Greek and Roman Literature |
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Neo-Latin Studies |
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Riddles |
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Word Games |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek poetry -- History and criticism
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Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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Riddles in literature.
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Plays on words -- Early works to 1800
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Greek poetry
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Latin poetry
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Plays on words
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Riddles in literature
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Lyrik
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Griechisch
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Latein
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Wortspiel
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kwapisz, Jan.
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Petrain, David.
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Szymański, Mikołaj.
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| ISBN |
3110270617 |
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9783110270617 |
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