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Author:

Rosenmeyer, Patricia A., author.

Title:

The language of ruins : Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xx, 265 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Memnon--(Mythological character)--Statues--Thebes (Extinct city)--Thebes (Extinct city)
Memnon--(Mythological character)--Cult--Thebes (Extinct city)--Thebes (Extinct city)
Memnon--(Mythological character)
Inscriptions, Greek--Thebes (Extinct city)--Thebes (Extinct city)
Inscriptions, Latin--Thebes (Extinct city)--Thebes (Extinct city)
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Thebes (Extinct city)--Thebes (Extinct city)
Egypt--Civilization--332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Civilization.
Cults.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Inscriptions, Latin.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Statues.
Egypt.
Egypt--Thebes (Extinct city)
332 B.C.-638 A.D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Reading the colossus: the Memnon inscriptions -- Worshipping the colossus: sacred tourism at Thebes -- Talking with the colossus: the rhetoric of address -- Homeric Memnon -- Sapphic Memnon -- Modern Memnon.

ISBN:

0190626313
9780190626310

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1019836112

LCCN:

2017049334

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)