The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous

by Dirk Obbink and Christopher A. Faraone

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Divided into two sections, the volume consists of a general introduction to the new inscriptions, together with a critical text and English translation, photographs, and drawings. The second section contains a collection of eleven interpretative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199664102
• ISBN13: 9780199664108
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"