A moment's ornament : the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece

by: Pache, C.O.

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 A moment's ornament : the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece

Author:Corinne Ondine Pache

Summary:From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their gods and to their past. A Moment's Ornament examines the theme of nympholepsy--the experience of being "seized" by a nymph or a goddess--in ancient Greek cult and poetry from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. In poetry, this topos, which is ubiquitous in many of the most well-known ancient Greek sources, focuses on the figure of the goddess, or nymph, who falls in love with a mortal man and subsequently bears a mortal child. The theme also finds its way in ritual as stories of encounters between divinities

Contents:
Nympholeptic goddesses at the end of the theogony
Nympholepts in ancient Greece
Goddesses in love and nympholeptic heroes
Odysseus nympholeptos
Kephalos in the city
Hellenistic nympholeptoi

A moment's ornament : the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece

by: Pache, C.O.

• ISBN-13: 9780195339369
• ISBN-03: 0195339363
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011

Price: 59,00 EURO

1 copy in stock