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

by Corinne Ondine Pache

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195339363
• ISBN13: 9780195339369
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages