The language of ruins : Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus
- Title
- The language of ruins : Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer.
- Published by
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xx, 265 pages; 25 cm
- Subject
- Memnon (Mythological character)
- Inscriptions, Latin
- Inscriptions, Greek
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Egypt > Civilization > 332 B.C.-638 A.D
- Civilization
- Memnon (Mythological character) > Cult > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- Inscriptions, Latin > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- Statues
- Inscriptions, Greek > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- Memnon (Mythological character) > Statues > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- Cults
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
- 332 B.C.-638 A.D
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 18-4600
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Author
- Rosenmeyer, Patricia A., author.
- Title
- The language of ruins : Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Chronological term
- 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
- LCCN
- 2017049334
- Other standard identifier
- 40028126627
- ISBN
- 9780190626310 hardcover
- 0190626313 hardcover
- Research call number
- JFE 18-4600