Iambus and Elegy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 February 2016
- ISBN 9780199689743
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 222x142x26 mm
- Weight 582 g
- Language English 10
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Short description:
For over two centuries, elegy and iambus attracted some of the finest poetic talents in Greek history. This edited collection provides the first comprehensive exploration devoted specifically to these two genres, offering an important insight into the key issues within current research.
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For over two centuries-starting with the earliest surviving iambic poet and elegist, Archilochus-elegy and iambus 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. The study of these poetic forms has been transformed in recent years by new papyrological finds, yet historically scholarly attention has tended to focus predominantly on Greek lyric poetry. 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 experts in the field examine the forms from a broad range of perspectives-addressing questions of genre definition, performance and context, authorial voice and style, interactions and intertexts, and the texts' transmission and reception-and provide a solid foundation for future research.
The volume, comprising independent articles about iambic and elegiac poems... Providing the reader with an informative and thoroughgoing account of interactivity between iambus and elegy and other kinds of early Greek poetry... Presenting sensitive readings of elegiac and iambic poems... I agree with Malcolm Heaths succinct answer to the question of the volumes value: Overall, this is a rewarding collection.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
I: Poetry in Performance
Cultic Contexts for Elegiac Performance
Choral Elegy
Coarse Poetics: Listening to Hipponax
Archilochus and Homer in the Rhapsodic Context
II: Charting Genre, Creating Traditions
The Ancient Literary History of Iambos
Mapping Iambos: Mining the Minor Talents
Simonides' Personal Elegies
Writing Solon
Archilochus' Elegiac Fragments: Textual and Exegetical Notes
III: Cultural Interactions
Elegy and Epic: A Complex Relationship
Mythological Narratives in Hipponax
Bupalus in Scheria: Hipponax's Odyssean Transcontextualizations
Poetics and Precedents in Archilochus' Erotic Imagery
IV: Ancient Receptions and Intertexts
Warding Off a Hailstorm of Blood: Pindar on Martial Elegy
The 'Ship of Fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's Republic 488a-489a
Anger, Bile, and the Poet's Body in the Archilochean Tradition
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