Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2029
ISBN: 978-0-19-921620-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies

Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry contains 17 studies on Greek Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic poetry by leading international academics drawn from the last three decades, 3 of which are translated here for the first time. Divided into general studies on themes and case studies on specific poets, they are preceded by a detailed introduction by the editor, Ian Rutherford, which surveys the recent trends in scholarship on Greek Lyric. The volume also contains
an up to date bibliography to promote further research into the field.

This volume will be a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Greek Lyric and its developments.

Zielgruppe

For graduate students and scholars interested in classical studies, especially Greek Lyric, and ancient Greek literature and poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rutherford, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionIan Rutherford:
Part 1: General Themes
Claude Calame: Greek Lyric Poetry, a Non-existent Genre?
Malcolm Davies: Monody, Choral Lyric, and the tyranny of the hand-book
Wolfgang Rösler: Real persona or poetic persona?
Gregory Nagy: Genre and occasion
E.L Bowie: Early greek elegy, symposium, and public festival
Simon Slings: Symposium and Interpretation
Andrew Ford: The Genre of genres
Part 2: Studies on Specific Poets
E. Robbins: Alcman's Partheneion
Bernd Seidensticker: Archilochus and Odysseus
Ralph M. Rosen: Hipponax, Boupalos, and the conventions of the Psogos
Robin Osborne: The Use of Abuse: Semonides 7
Leslie Kurke: Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos Reading Alkaios Otherwise
Andre Lardinois: Keening Sappho
Anne Burnett: Jocasta in the West
Giovanni Cerri: The Significance of the 'Sphregis' in Theogins and the safeguarding of textual authenticity in antiquity
Margaret Williamson: Eros the blacksmith
Glenn W. Most: Simonides' ode to Scopas in Contexts
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. His main interest is in Greek poetry and religion, especially pilgrimage, ancient Anatolia, and the relations between Greece and Egypt