Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication: Representation and
Reperformance Cambridge University Press, 2010/10/28 - 321 ページ
Together with sacrifice, prayer, and libation, offering
dedications was a basic religious activity among ancient Greeks.
By the end of the Archaic period (c. 480 B.C.), sanctuaries were
bursting with dedications, including finer ones such as statues
bearing epigrams. Scholarly treatments have focused on formal
matters and, more recently, the function of dedications as
social display. This is the first study to view dedications
comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy and, especially, to
recover epigram's reflections of and contributions to that
efficacy and restore it to an important place in the panorama of
Greek religious practice.To reconstruct the Archaic experience
of reading and viewing, the book draws on studies of traditional
poetic language as resonant with immanent meaning, early Greek
poetry as socially and religiously effective performance, and
viewing art as an active respons