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

The Muse at Play : : Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry / / ed. by Jan Kwapisz, Mikolaj Szymanski, David Petrain.

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In May 2011, a conference on riddles and word games in Greek and Latin poetry took place at the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw. The conference was intended as an open forum where specialists working in different fields of classical studies could meet to discuss the varied...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Bartol, Krystyna,
Beerden, Kim,
Benefiel, Rebecca R.,
Bowie, Ewen,
Cusset, Christophe,
Danielewicz, Jerzy,
Fontaine, Michael,
Garulli, Valentina,
Katz, Joshua T.,
Kolde, Antje,
Kwapisz, Jan,
LeVen, Pauline A.,
Lowe, Dunstan,
Luz, Christine,
Mairs, Rachel,
Maurizio, Lisa,
Milewska-Waźbińska, Barbara,
Naerebout, Frederick G.,
Pappas, Alexandra,
Sebo, Erin,
Sullivan, Michael B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Kwapisz, Jan,
Petrain, David,
Szymanski, Mikolaj,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 305
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of 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?
  • The Rhetoric of the Riddle in the Alexandra of Lycophron
  • In 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 Receptions
  • The 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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