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Author: Elizabeth Irwin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521851787 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek Poetry, and the role this poetry had in articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the stance of exhortation adopted in early Greek elegy, and to the political poetry of Solon; it also stresses the importance of considering performance context as a critical factor in interpreting the political expressions of this poetry. Part I of this study argues that the singing of elegiac paraenesis in the élite symposium reflects the attempt of symposiasts to assert a heroic identity for themselves within this wider polis community. Parts II and III turn to the political poetry of Solon: Part II demonstrates how the elegy of Solon both confirms the existence of this élite practise, and subverts it, drawing on the poetic traditions of epic and Hesiod to further different political aims; Part III looks beyond Solon's appropriations of poetic traditions to argue for another influence on Solon's political poetry, that of tyranny. The book concludes by exploring the implications of this reading of elegy for a political interpretation of the Homeric epics in Athens.
Author: Elizabeth Irwin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521851787 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek Poetry, and the role this poetry had in articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the stance of exhortation adopted in early Greek elegy, and to the political poetry of Solon; it also stresses the importance of considering performance context as a critical factor in interpreting the political expressions of this poetry. Part I of this study argues that the singing of elegiac paraenesis in the élite symposium reflects the attempt of symposiasts to assert a heroic identity for themselves within this wider polis community. Parts II and III turn to the political poetry of Solon: Part II demonstrates how the elegy of Solon both confirms the existence of this élite practise, and subverts it, drawing on the poetic traditions of epic and Hesiod to further different political aims; Part III looks beyond Solon's appropriations of poetic traditions to argue for another influence on Solon's political poetry, that of tyranny. The book concludes by exploring the implications of this reading of elegy for a political interpretation of the Homeric epics in Athens.
Author: Josine Blok Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047408896 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 488
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Now available in paperback for the first time, this collection of essays by specialists in the field offers fundamentally new perspectives on the poetry, laws, and historical facts associated with the figure of Solon of Athens.
Author: Maarit Kivilo Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004193286 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 279
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This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”
Author: P. E. Easterling Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521359818 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production was closely related to developments in contemporary society. At the time when the city states were acquiring their distinctive institutions epic found the greatest of all its exponents in Homer, and lyric poetry for both solo and choral performance became a genre which attracted poets of the first rank, writers of the quality of Sappho, Alcaeus and Pindar, whose influence on later literature was to be profound. This volume covers the epic tradition, the didactic poems of Hesiod and his imitators, and the wide-ranging work of the iambic, elegiac and lyric poets of what is loosely called the archaic age. The contributors make use of recent papyrus finds (particularly in the case of Archilochus and Stesichorus) to fill out the picture of a cosmopolitan and highly sophisticated literary culture which had not yet found its intellectual centre in Athens.
Author: John Addington Symonds Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 767
Book Description
"Studies of the Greek Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by the English poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds that features a comprehensive survey of Greek poetry. This carefully crafted Good Press ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Contents: The Periods of Greek Literature Mythology Achilles The Women of Homer Hesiod Parmenides Empedocles The Gnomic Poets The Satirists The Lyric Poets Pindar Aeschylus Sophocles Greek Tragedy and Euripides The Fragments of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides The Fragments of the Lost Tragic Poets Ancient and Modern Tragedy Aristophanes The Comic Fragments The Idyllists The Anthology Hero and Leander The Genius of Greek Art Conclusion
Author: Anthony J. Podlecki Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 077484504X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 300
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This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Instead of concentrating on the poetry as literature, Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B.C. in the context of the military and historical events of the period.
Author: Maria Noussia Fantuzzi Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004174788 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 595
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This book illuminates the authoritative voice of Solon of Athens by an integrated literary, historical, and philological approach and the use of a range of hermeneutic frameworks, from literary theory to oral poetics.
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
Author: Elizabeth K. Irwin
Author: Josine Blok
Author: Maarit Kivilo
Author: David D. Mulroy
Author: P. E. Easterling
Author: John Addington Symonds
Author: Anthony J. Podlecki
Author: Maria Noussia Fantuzzi