TY  - GEN
AB  - A colossal statue, originally built to honour an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to 'speak' regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. This text is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context.
AU  - Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - DT73.T3
ID  - 822782
KW  - Inscriptions, Greek
KW  - Inscriptions, Latin
KW  - Pilgrims and pilgrimages
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626310.001.0001
N2  - A colossal statue, originally built to honour an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to 'speak' regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. This text is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context.
SN  - 9780190626334
T1  - The language of ruins :Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus /
TI  - The language of ruins :Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Memnon colossus /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626310.001.0001
ER  -