دانلود کتاب The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry

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The Muse at Play: An Introduction
I. Discourses of Play
The Sympotic Tease
“You Make Less Sense than a (New) Dithyramb”: Sociology of a Riddling Style
Magic Squares, Alphabet Jumbles, Riddles and More: The Culture of Word-Games among the Graffiti of Pompeii
II. The Ancient Riddle: Theory and Practice
What Has It Got in Its Pocketses? Or, What Makes a Riddle a Riddle?
Technopaegnia in Heraclitus and the Delphic Oracles: Shared Compositional Techniques
“Gods Cannot Tell Lies”: Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination
Were There Hellenistic Riddle Books?
The Rhetoric of the Riddle in the Alexandra of Lycophron
In scirpo nodum: Symphosius’ Reworking of the Riddle Form
III. Visual Poetry in the Text and on the Stone
The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia
Nicander’s Aesopic Acrostic and Its Antidote
Greek Acrostic Verse Inscriptions
Sopha grammata: Acrostichs in Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Arachosia, Nubia and Libya
IV. Case Studies
Versus anacyclici: The Case of P. Sorb. 72v (= adesp. com. fr. 52 PCG)
A Palindrome, an Acrostich and a Riddle: Three Solutions
Triple Tipple: Ausonius’ Griphus ternarii numeri
V. Playful Receptions
The Aulularia inversa of Joannes Burmeister
Waste of Time or Artistic Expression? Notes on poesis artificiosa of the Modern Era
Note on Contributors and Editors
Index of Passages Discussed
General Index