The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. The Muse at Play: An Introduction 1
5. I. Discourses of Play
6. The Sympotic Tease 33
7. “You Make Less Sense than a (New) Dithyramb”: Sociology of a Riddling Style 44
8. Magic Squares, Alphabet Jumbles, Riddles and More: The Culture of Word-Games among the Graffiti of Pompeii 65
9. II. The Ancient Riddle: Theory and Practice
10. What Has It Got in Its Pocketses? Or, What Makes a Riddle a Riddle? 83
11. Technopaegnia in Heraclitus and the Delphic Oracles: Shared Compositional Techniques 100
12. “Gods Cannot Tell Lies”: Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination 121
13. Were There Hellenistic Riddle Books? 148
14. The Rhetoric of the Riddle in the Alexandra of Lycophron 168
15. In scirpo nodum: Symphosius’ Reworking of the Riddle Form 184
16. III. Visual Poetry in the Text and on the Stone
17. The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia 199
18. Nicander’s Aesopic Acrostic and Its Antidote 225
19. Greek Acrostic Verse Inscriptions 246
20. Sopha grammata: Acrostichs in Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Arachosia, Nubia and Libya 279
21. IV. Case Studies
22. Versus anacyclici: The Case of P. Sorb. 72^v (= adesp. com. fr. 52 PCG) 309
23. A Palindrome, an Acrostich and a Riddle: Three Solutions 320
24. Triple Tipple: Ausonius’ Griphus ternarii numeri 335
25. V. Playful Receptions
26. The Aulularia inversa of Joannes Burmeister 355
27. Waste of Time or Artistic Expression? Notes on poesis artificiosa of the Modern Era 379
28. Note on Contributors and Editors 401
29. Index of Passages Discussed 405
30. General Index 417