The language of ruins : Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus /
Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Memnon (Mythological character)
Memnon (Mythological character)
Memnon (Mythological character)
Inscriptions, Greek
Inscriptions, Latin
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Civilization.
Cults.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Inscriptions, Latin.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Statues.