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Author: Zoe Stamatopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107162998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.
Author: Robin Greene
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-19
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9004469265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introductory guide to modern scholarship on post-Classical Greek elegy and lyric.
Author: Alexander Dalzell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0802008224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDalzell presents three of the major didactic poems in the classical canon: the De rerum natura of Lucretius, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Ars amatoria of Ovid, considering what tools are available for their understanding.
Author: Bruno Gentili
Publisher:
Published: 1990-02
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Author: Jessica Romney
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0472131850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLyric 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: Neil Hopkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-09-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521423137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.
Author: Steven J. Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-16
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0191093440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary contemporaries have been and continue to be subjects of academic scrutiny, Grattius is seldom read and remains almost completely unappreciated in classical and literary scholarship. This volume is the first book-length study of Grattius in English or any other language and sets out to rehabilitate the neglected poet by making him and his work accessible to a wide audience. Prefaced by an introduction to the poet and his work, as well as the Latin text of Cynegetica and a new English translation, it presents a broad collection of interpretive essays from an international team of scholars. These essays explore the poem within its literary, intellectual, and socio-political contexts and look forward to Grattius' (more charitable) posthumous reception in Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. As a whole they aim to reveal his enduring relevance for the tradition of didactic poetry and the study of other Augustan poetry and culture, and to provide an impetus for future discussions.
Author: Pietro Bembo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674017122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. The poems in this volume come from all periods of his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This volume also includes the prose dialogue Etna, an account of Bembo's ascent of Mt. Etna in Sicily during his student days.
Author: Marion Mills Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 141034679X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Zbigniew Herbert's "Why The Classics," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
