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Reading the Victory Ode

2012-08-09 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Reading the Victory Ode by : Peter Agócs

Download or read book Reading the Victory Ode written by Peter Agócs. This book was released on 2012-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric from the Renaissance onwards. This collection of essays by international experts examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its genesis and evolution, the nature of the commissioning process, the patrons, context of performance and re-performance, and the poetics of the victory ode and its exponents. From these different perspectives the contributors offer both a panoramic view of the genre and an insight into the modern research positions on this complex and fascinating subject.

Epinicians

2015-11-26
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Book Synopsis Epinicians by : Bacchylides

Download or read book Epinicians written by Bacchylides. This book was released on 2015-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.

Reading the Victory Ode

2012-08-09 History
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Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Reading the Victory Ode by : Peter Agócs

Download or read book Reading the Victory Ode written by Peter Agócs. This book was released on 2012-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

The New Simonides

2001-06-14 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2001-06-14
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Book Synopsis The New Simonides by : Deborah Boedeker

Download or read book The New Simonides written by Deborah Boedeker. This book was released on 2001-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

Archaic and Classical Choral Song

2011 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2011
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Archaic and Classical Choral Song by : Lucia Athanassaki

Download or read book Archaic and Classical Choral Song written by Lucia Athanassaki. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. It explores how choruses presented themselves; individuals' and communities' roles in funding performances and securing the circulation of texts; how performances continued inside and outside family and city, whether chorally or in symposia, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how such performances contributed to transmission of the poems' texts until they were collected by Hellenistic scholars.

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