Greek poetry before 400 BC

• Mehrtlg. Werk: Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture
• Abtlg. des mehrtlg. Werks: Volume 1
• Band: Volume 1
• Verfasst von: Bowie, Ewen [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Greek poetry before 400 BC
• Ausgabe: First paperback edition
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xvii, 866 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69209-1
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Bowie, Ewen, 1940 - : Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 866 Seiten)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Bowie, Ewen, 1940 - : Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (886 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1891335499

Abstract

"In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g., that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book "--