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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 July 2007
- ISBN 9780199215508
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages442 pages
- Size 223x145x28 mm
- Weight 669 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 figures 0
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Short description:
An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.
MoreLong description:
Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.
...throughly researched, wide-ranging...an extremely stimulating and thorough reading of some of Bacchylides' poems...and should be consulted by everyone interested not only in archaic Greek poetry, nut also in Athenian performance culture
Table of Contents:
Tradition and Contextualization
I. Praise
The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B)
Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13
II. Bacchylides Dithyrambs and the Kuklios Khoros
Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception
Contexts
Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens
Conclusion
