The Muse at Play : Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry / edited by Jan Kwapisz, David Petrain and Mikołaj Szymański
- Published:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 420 pages : fascimiles, illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Kwapisz, Jan, Petrain, David, and Szymański, Mikołaj
- Series:
- Language Note:
- In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.
- Contents:
- The muse at play : an introduction / Joshua T. Katz -- The sympotic tease / Ewen Bowie -- "You make less sense than a (new) Dithyramb" : sociology of a riddling style / Pauline A. LeVen -- Magic squares, alphabet jumbles, riddles and more : the culture of word-games among the graffiti of Pompeii / Rebecca R. Benefiel -- What has it got in its pocketses? Or, what makes a riddle a riddle? / Christine Luz -- Technopaegnia in Heraclitus and the Delphic Oracles : shared compositional techniques / Lisa Maurizio -- "Gods cannot tell lies" : riddling and Ancient Greek divination / Federick G. Naerebout & Kim Beerden -- Were there Hellenistic riddle books? / Jan Kwapisz -- The rhetoric of the riddle in the Alexandra of Lycophron / Christophe Cusset & Antje Kolde -- In scirpo nodum : Symphosius' reworking of the riddle form / Erin Sebo -- The treachery of verbal images : viewing the Greek technopaegnia / Alexandra Pappas -- Nicander's aesopic acrostic and its antidote / Michael B. Sullivan -- Greek acrostic verse inscriptions / Valentina Garulli -- Sopha grammata : acrostichs in Greek and Latin inscriptions from Arachosia, Nubia and Libya / Rachel Mairs -- Versus anacyclici : the case of P. Sorb. 72 ̌ (=adesp. com. fr. 52 PCG) / Krystyna Bartol -- A palindrome, an acrostich and a riddle : three solutions / Jerzy Danielewicz -- Tripple tipple : Ausonius' Griphus ternarii numeri / Dunstan Lowe -- The Aulularia inversa of Joannes Burmeister / Michael Fountaine -- Waste of time or artistic expression? Notes on poesis artificiosa of the modern era / Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska.
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- ISBN:
- 9783110270006 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
3110270005 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9783110270617 (e-ISBN)
3110270617 (e-ISBN) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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