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Miles, Brent, “Riss in mundtuirc: the tale of Harmonia’s necklace and the study of the Theban cycle in medieval Ireland”, Ériu 57 (2007): 67–112.

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Riss in mundtuirc: the tale of Harmonia’s necklace and the study of the Theban cycle in medieval Ireland”
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Ériu 57 (2007)
Breatnach, Liam, Rolf Baumgarten, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 57 (2007), Royal Irish Academy.
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57
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67–112
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This article presents an edition of the Middle Irish prose text Riss in Mundtuirc, 'The tale of the necklace', which recounts episodes from the classical story of the families of the Theban king Oedipus and the Argive prophet Amphiaraus. The text draws principally on Statius's Thebaid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as on Late Antique commentary. An examination is made of the character of classical learning in medieval Ireland and the place of Riss in Mundtuirc in the corpus of classical adaptations in Irish, with special reference to the extensive quotation from the Riss in Togail na Tebe, the Irish translation of Statius's Thebaid. Consideration is made of the thematic prominence of kin-murder in the Riss and contemporary classical tales in Irish.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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