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Hardcover A Moment's Ornament: The Poetics of Nympholepsy in Ancient Greece Book
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ISBN: 0195339363

ISBN13: 9780195339369

A Moment's Ornament: The Poetics of Nympholepsy in Ancient Greece

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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...

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