A moment's ornament
Subtitle: the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece
By: Corinne Ondine Pache.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780195339369
Subjects: Nymphs (Greek deities); Nymphs (Greek deities) in literature
Description: This book offers the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of nympholepsy-the experience of being 'seized' by a nymph-in ancient Greek cult and poetry. Using literary and archaeological sources, this study provides a new interpretation of the bond between mortals and immortals, and between cult and poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Nympholeptic goddesses at the end of the theogony; title: Nympholepts in ancient Greece; title: Goddesses in love and nympholeptic heroes; title: Odysseus nympholeptos; title: Kephalos in the city; title: Hellenistic nympholeptoi.