The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous by Dirk Obbink, Christopher A. Faraone

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

Dirk Obbink, Christopher A. Faraone

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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 ...

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