Book Description
This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social settings, and their purposes within it.
Author : Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social settings, and their purposes within it.
Author : Jessica Romney
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0472131850
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as well as the material of performance. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that sympotic lyric overwhelmingly prefers to use identity rhetoric that insists on the inherent sameness of group members. All non-English text and quotes are translated, with the original languages given alongside the translation or in the endnotes.
Author : Archilochus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520052239
Author : Barbara Hughes Fowler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780299135140
With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents a comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. Fowler's translations provide access to six Homeric hymns, eight selections from Bakchylides, 11 odes of Pindar, selections from the iambicists and elegists, virtually all of Archilochos and of the lyricists, including Sappho, and a number of anonymous poems about work, play and politics.
Author : Douglas E. Gerber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004099449
This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory.
Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192561049
Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.
Author : Richard Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521898781
Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
Author : Xavier Riu
Publisher : Claudio Meliadò
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8882680304
Author :
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811212885
"Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language."--Anne Carson
Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 1987-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487597185
Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study. First, Fowler attempts to determine the extent that Homer and epic poetry generally influenced the lyric poets, with respect to both the style of compositions and their content. Identifying the certain examples of influence – which are far fewer than often thought – he analyses the technique of imitation, tracing a development from simpler to more complex as the archaic period proceeds. Throughout this and the following chapter, he often finds occasion to take issue with the famous and influential view of the early Greek mind championed by Bruno Snell and Hermann Fränkel. In the second chapter Fowler studies the organization of individual poems, identifying compositional principles that may be used to solve literary and textual problems. Some of these principles, like ring-composition, are old familiars; others are not. All are found to be more pervasive than is often realized, and reflect an attitude to composition rather different from the disorderly and associative techniques traditionally ascribed to the lyrics poets. The last chapter explores the nature of genres in the archaic period, starting from the vexed question of the definition of elegy. In all the genres associated with particular occasions, the author finds that the poets' professional skills and self-consciousness became more important than the purely occasional aspects of their composition. Observations of interest are made on, among others, citharodic songs, epigrams and epinician odes; and elegy in the end turns out, paradoxically, not to be a true genre at all.