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Author: Anthony J. Podlecki
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 077484504X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael Schmidt
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Michael Schmidt' s last book, "Lives of the Poets," was published, Mark Strand called it " a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read." Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and e lan to "The" "First Poets"-- the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time. Poetry takes its bearings from the brilliant constellation of early and classical Greek poets, who have long been overshadowed by the great Greek dramatists. In The First Poets,"" Schmidt rescues the lives of these poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the " dirty old man of poetry"; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others. Combining the verifiable facts of their lives and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
Author: Bruno Gentili
Publisher:
Published: 1990-02
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780806136646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. This pathbreaking volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome. In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly “feminine” perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention, the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.
Author: Maarit Kivilo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9004193286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: John Addington Symonds
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 769
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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 DigiCat 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: Richard Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0521898781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
Author: Diane J. Rayor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991-08-22
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780520910966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.
Author: Moses Hadas
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of Greek poetry from the earliest times to the 5th century A.D.
