Format:
1 Online-Ressource (265 Seiten)
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illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780190626334
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9780190875282
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9780190626327
Content:
A colossal statue, originally built to honour an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to 'speak' regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. This text is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Previously issued in print: 2018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190626310
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. The language of ruins Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780190626310
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Amenophis III. Ägypten, Pharao v1402-v1364
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Kolossalstatue
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Theben
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Inschrift
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Griechisch
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Latein
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Theben
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Pilger
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Antike
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190626310.001.0001
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