The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance
In his wide-ranging book, Mark McClay contends that earlier scholarship on the "Orphic-Bacchic" gold leaves has focused too much on their specific religious contexts. He argues, in contrast, that the leaves should be interpreted within the contexts of Greek poetry: its values, communities,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Kernos
Year: 2023, Volume: 36, Pages: 262-263 |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | In his wide-ranging book, Mark McClay contends that earlier scholarship on the "Orphic-Bacchic" gold leaves has focused too much on their specific religious contexts. He argues, in contrast, that the leaves should be interpreted within the contexts of Greek poetry: its values, communities, and performance. Poetry is defined expansively, including material from Homer to epitaphs to curse tablets. This approach counters the position that the leaves express values systematically opposed to those... |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kernos
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/kernos.4736 |