Greek lyric : a selection / edited by Felix Budelmann.
"The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by sev...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018. |
| Series: | Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.
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| Genre: | Lyric poetry. |
Table of Contents:
- List of maps; Preface; Conventions and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Definitions and perspectives; 2. Charting the corpus; 3. Genre and genres; 4. Performers, authors and the lyric voice; 5. Relationship with epic; 6. Dissemination and transmission; 7. Metre; 8 Dialect; Greek lyric: a selection: Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, Timotheus, Anonymous song; Commentary; Works cited; Index.