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Simonides Lyricus

Author : Peter Agócs
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701069
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Simonides Lyricus written by Peter Agócs and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name. The volume makes a substantial contribution to modern discussions of Simonides’ place in Greek literary and cultural history and to the understanding of this poet’s often fragmentary and difficult texts.

Greek Lyric

Author : Felix Budelmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108579167
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Greek Lyric written by Felix Budelmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina convivalia and passages from Timotheus' Persians. Both longer and shorter pieces are included. The introduction discusses major issues in the study of Greek lyric including genre, performance and transmission. The commentary is literary in emphasis but also treats questions of syntax, textual reconstruction, metre and dialect. The volume will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars.

Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods

Author : David Fearn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004424377
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods written by David Fearn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about Greek lyric? How should we conceptualize it in relation to literature, song, music, rhetoric, history? This discussion investigates such questions, analysing a range of influential methodologies that have shaped the recent history of the field.

The Emergence of the Lyric Canon

Author : Theodora A. Hadjimichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198810865
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Lyric Canon written by Theodora A. Hadjimichael and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was based on poetic quality, popularity, or the availability of texts in the Library of Alexandria, the Lyric Canon offers a valuable and revealing window on the reception and survival of lyric in antiquity. This volume explores the complexities inherent in the process by which lyric poetry was canonized, and discusses questions connected with the textual transmission and preservation of lyric poems from the archaic period through to the Hellenistic era. It firstly contextualizes lyric poetry geographically, and then focuses on a broad range of sources that played a critical role in the survival of lyric poetry - in particular, comedy, Plato, Aristotle's Peripatetic school, and the Hellenistic scholars - to discuss the reception of the nine canonical lyric poets and their work. By exploring the ways in which fifth- and fourth-century sources interpreted lyric material, and the role they played both in the scholarly work of the Alexandrians and in the creation of what we conventionally call the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, it elucidates what can be defined as the prevailing pattern in the transmission of lyric poetry, as well as the place of Bacchylides as a puzzling exception to this norm. The overall discussion conclusively demonstrates that the canonizing process of the lyric poets was already at work from the fifth century BC and that it is reflected both in the evaluation of lyric by fourth-century thinkers and in the activities of the Hellenistic scholars in the Library of Alexandria.

The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414525
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attention is given to the poets Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Timotheus. Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace’s commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.

Iambus and Elegy

Author : Laura Swift
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199689741
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Iambus and Elegy written by Laura Swift and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two centuries, iambus and elegy attracted some of the finest poetic talents in Greek history and played a major role in public and private life, surviving as living forms into the fourth century BC. This edited collection provides the first comprehensive exploration devoted specifically to iambus and elegy, offering an important insight into the key issues within current research on the genres. Chapters by leading international scholars in the fieldexamine the forms from a broad range of perspectives and provide a solid foundation for future research.

Song Regained

Author : Margarita Alexandrou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110711001
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Song Regained written by Margarita Alexandrou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasis on the papyrological tradition. Its main purpose is to showcase effective methodologies through case studies, through a “hands-on” approach assisted by a robust theoretical underpinning. The topics covered include textual criticism, the editing of fragmentary corpora, the role of palaeography and the physical features of writing materials, the study of ancient editions, annotations and paraliterary texts, matters of indirect or mixed tradition, and fragment placement and attribution. This volume will certainly be a rewarding read, intended equally for new researchers who wish to acquire or improve the skills needed to deal with fragmentary texts and for established scholars who may draw on the authors’ insights to navigate the field improving their experience and enriching their knowledge.

Greek Poetry: Elegiac and Lyric: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199803080
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Greek Poetry: Elegiac and Lyric: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Simonides the Poet

Author : Richard Rawles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107141702
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Simonides the Poet written by Richard Rawles and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C.

Author : Kathryn A. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190266619
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. written by Kathryn A. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book attempts a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s BC. It argues that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive cultural program that included athletic competition, coinage, architecture, sanctuary dedication, city foundation, and much more. In the tumultuous years following the Persian invasion of Greece in 480, elite Greek leaders and their cities struggled to capitalize on the Greek victory and to define themselves as free peoples who triumphed over the threat of Persian monarchy. Pindar's victory odes are an important contribution to Hieron's goal of panhellenic pre-eminence, redescribing contemporary tyranny as an instantiation of golden-age kingship and consonant with best Greek tradition. In a delicate process of cultural legitimation, the poet's praise deploys athletic victories as a signs of more general preeminence. Three initial chapters set the stage by presenting the history and culture of Syracuse under the Deinomenid tyrants, exploring issues of performance and patronage, and juxtaposing Hieron to rival Greek leaders on the mainland. Subsequent chapters examine in turn all Pindar's preserved poetry for Hieron and members of his court, and contextualizes this poetry by comparing it to the songs written for Hieron by Pindar's poetic contemporary, Bacchylides. These odes develop a specifically "tyrannical" mythology in which a hero from the past enjoys unusual closeness with the gods, only to bring ruin on him or herself by failing to manage this closeness appropriately. Such negative exemplars counterbalance Hieron's good fortune and present the dangers against which he must (and does) protect himself by regal virtue. The readings that emerge are marked by exceptional integration of literary interpretation with the political/historical context.

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West

Author : Nigel James Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190209097
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West written by Nigel James Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West

Author : Nigel Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493305
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West written by Nigel Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the hero-athlete narrative-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule. Combining an intimate knowledge of the material culture of the Greek West with an innovative use of available source material, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West exposes the rich intersections between athletics and politics in Sicily and Italy, offering a new and compelling account of Deinomenid self-promotion and of the varied and complex communities that operated under the Deinomenids' control or within their shadow. Further, by establishing models of production and interpretation for the orally transmitted narratives and bringing them into dialogue with epinician, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West reveals much about epinician as a form, how it developed in the Greek West, what meanings it already carried, and what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron the second Deinomenid ruler.

Life of Demosthenes

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Life of Demosthenes written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry

Author : Alexandros Kampakoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110651866
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry written by Alexandros Kampakoglou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This monograph is the first book to offer a systematic examination of the evidence for the reception of Pindar in the works of Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidippus of Pella. Through a series of case studies, it argues that Pindaric poetry exercised a considerable influence on a variety of Hellenistic genres: epinician elegies and epigrams, hymns, encomia, and epic poetry. For the poets active at the courts of the first three Ptolemies, Pindar's poetry represented praise discourse in its most successful configuration. Imitating aspects of it, they lent their support to the ideological apparatus of Greco-Egyptian kingship, shaped the literary profile of Pindar for future generations of readers, and defined their own role and place in Greek literary history. The discussion offered in this book suggests new insights into aspects of literary tradition, Ptolemaic patronage, and Hellenistic poetics, placing Pindar's work at the very heart of an intricate nexus of political and poetic correspondences.

Pindar and the Sublime

Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350198137
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Pindar and the Sublime written by Robert L. Fowler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), arguably Pindar's greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar's odes as literature. Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar's views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.

The Art of History

Author : Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110493292
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Art of History written by Vasileios Liotsakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.