Delivery included to the United States

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition Memory and Performance

Paperback (17 Apr 2025)

Save $0.97

  • RRP $31.43
  • $30.46
Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks

Other formats & editions

New
Hardback (25 May 2023) RRP $116.21 $99.16

Publisher's Synopsis

The Bacchic gold tablets are a remarkable collection of objects from the Ancient Greek world: inscribed with short verse texts and buried in graves of mystery initiates, they express extraordinary hopes for post-mortem salvation. Past approaches to these objects have sought to reconstruct their underlying belief system. This book is the first to examine them primarily within the context of early Greek poetry and performance culture. The patterns of thought and expression in the tablets find instructive poetic antecedents and analogies, including in non-canonical and inscribed genres that are not included in conventional descriptions of the poetic tradition. Applying a range of analytical approaches from the fields of epigraphy, anthropology, and religious studies, this book ultimately uses the tablets to cast more familiar literature in a new light.

About the Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press dates from 1534 and is part of the University of Cambridge. We further the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Book information

ISBN: 9781108987035
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 881.0109
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 226
Weight: 336g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 14mm