The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous
Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink
Abstract
This book 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 number of interpretative chapters which treat various aspects of the text, including religious and civic context, date and poetic language, transmission, and connections to ancient magic and r ... More
This book 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 number of interpretative chapters 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.
Keywords:
Getty Museum,
inscriptions,
religious context,
civic context,
poetic language,
transmission,
ancient magic,
ritual
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199664108 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664108.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Christopher A. Faraone, editor
Frank Curtis Springer & Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, University of Chicago
Dirk Obbink, editor
University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature and Tutorial Fellow in Greek, Christ Church College, University of Oxford
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