The Idea of Iambos
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 December 2009
- ISBN 9780199286270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 222x144x27 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece.
MoreLong description:
The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of ancient theories of genres and the way they affected ancient scholarship. Rotstein also examines the possibility of musical performance of iambic poetry as well as the various occasions of public performance, particularly at musical contests and rhapsodic recitals. Finally, she argues that, from the Archaic to the Classical period, there was a shift from the notion of literary class depending primarily on rhythm and on its archetypical representative, Archilochus, towards iambos as a genre defined mainly by invective as its dominant feature.
In this volume on arguably the most ephemeral and juvenile poetry to survive from antiquity, Rostein has given us a mature and substantial study, one that is sure to become the standard reference on the ancient scholarly reception of Greek iambos.
Table of Contents:
1. Greek Iambos (7th to 4th cent. BC): Genre and Corpus
Approaching Genre
The Corpus of Iambic Poets
2. Ways of Seeing
Iambos in Aristotle's Works
Ancient Theories of Iambos
3. Iambos and Iambeion: A Study of Terms in Context
Iambos in Archilochus (fr. 215W)
Iambe and Iambos
Iambos and Iambeion in the Classical Period
4. The Performance of Iambos
Musical Performance of Iamboi
Public Performance of Iamboi
5. Perceptions of Iambos
Archilochus as Prototype of Invective Poetry
Invective as Dominant Feature of Iambos
Final Remarks
