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Lindsay Watson

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Description:Formally cursing one's enemies was a frequent activity in ancient life and literature. As a result, curse poetry evolved as a significant literary genre, particularly in the Hellenistic and Roman period. Ovid's Ibis is the most extensive example.Arae, Lindsay Watson's fundamental study of this literary phenomenon, first differentiates the various types of curse found in ancient poetry with an eye to real-life analogues. It next undertakes a chronologically based examination of poetic curses, starting with the archaic and classical Greek periods, and then moving on to hellenistic and Roman curse-poetry. The rich hellenistic material receives especially detailed treatment. The volume concludes first by placing hellenistic curse poetry in its literary context and then relating it to the defixiones, the 'curse-tablets' of antiquity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs). To get started finding Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Formally cursing one's enemies was a frequent activity in ancient life and literature. As a result, curse poetry evolved as a significant literary genre, particularly in the Hellenistic and Roman period. Ovid's Ibis is the most extensive example.Arae, Lindsay Watson's fundamental study of this literary phenomenon, first differentiates the various types of curse found in ancient poetry with an eye to real-life analogues. It next undertakes a chronologically based examination of poetic curses, starting with the archaic and classical Greek periods, and then moving on to hellenistic and Roman curse-poetry. The rich hellenistic material receives especially detailed treatment. The volume concludes first by placing hellenistic curse poetry in its literary context and then relating it to the defixiones, the 'curse-tablets' of antiquity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs). To get started finding Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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