"Examines a collection of gold tablets, products of Greek mystery religions offering post mortem salvation, and reads them in the performance context and thought of early Greek poetry. Applies a range of new analytical tools to these materials, including approaches from epigraphy and religious studies"--
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Introduction: Bacchic verses: poetry and the gold leaves; 1. Mapping memory: Bacchic cults and poetic models; 2. The tomb of memory: epigrams and funerary context; 3. Material genres: amulets and incantations; 4. Gold in the grave: the metal of the tablets.