Greek Lyric and the Sacred

Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 6
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-75035-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 503, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Herodotus credits Homer and Hesiod with providing the Greeks with the image of their gods, but Greek lyric had a lot to say about this as well. This book examines the engagement of early Greek lyric poetry with the divine in the light of new scholarly approaches, both to lyric and to Greek religion, and the discovery of new lyric fragments in the last few decades. It focuses on the religious contexts in which lyric poetry was performed, the imagery used for the divine, and the communication between humans and gods expressed in these texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lardinois, André

Athanassaki, Lucia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology Emerita at the University of Crete. She has published extensively on Greek Lyric and Tragedy, with emphasis on the interface between performance and material culture, and more recently on Plutarch.

André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main fields of interest are archaic Greek poetry and classical drama.

Contributors are: Mary R. Bachvarova, Anton Bierl, Angus Bowie, Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Stefano Fanucchi, Thomas Hubbert, Athena Kavoulaki, Lawrence Kowerski, Amy Mars, Richard Martin, Gregory Nagy, Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi, Cecilia Nobili, Cameron G. Pearson, Gabriella Pironti, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Saskia Willigers.