The Muse at Play : Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry / edited by Jan Kwapisz, David Petrain and Mikolaj Szymanski.
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TextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 305.Publication details: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Greek poetry -- History and criticism
- Latin poetry -- History and criticism
- Riddles in literature
- Plays on words -- Early works to 1800
- Rhetoric, Ancient
- Poésie grecque -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie latine -- Histoire et critique
- Mots d'esprit et jeux de mots -- Ouvrages avant 1800
- Rhétorique ancienne
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- Greek poetry
- Latin poetry
- Plays on words
- Rhetoric, Ancient
- Riddles in literature
- Lyrik
- Griechisch
- Latein
- Wortspiel
- 881/.0109 23
- PA3095 .M88 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 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.
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.
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.
In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.
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