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Author : Gordon Kirkwood
Release : 1966
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Book Synopsis The Narrative Art of Bacchylides by : Gordon Kirkwood
Download or read book The Narrative Art of Bacchylides written by Gordon Kirkwood. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Pippin Burnett
Release : 1985
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of Bacchylides by : Anne Pippin Burnett
Download or read book The Art of Bacchylides written by Anne Pippin Burnett. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.
Author : David Fearn
Release : 2007-07-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 502/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bacchylides by : David Fearn
Download or read book Bacchylides written by David Fearn. This book was released on 2007-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Charles Segal
Release : 1998
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aglaia by : Charles Segal
Download or read book Aglaia written by Charles Segal. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and their art, the use of mythical paradigms, and the relation of the poems to their social context. A recurrent theme is the recognition of the fragility and brevity of mortal happiness and the consciousness of how the immortality conferred by poetry resists the ever-threatening presence of death and oblivion, fixing in permanent form the passing moments of joy and beauty. This is an essential book for students and scholars of ancient Greek poetry.
Author : Anthony J. Podlecki
Release : 2011-11-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis The Early Greek Poets and Their Times by : Anthony J. Podlecki
Download or read book The Early Greek Poets and Their Times written by Anthony J. Podlecki. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Instead of concentrating on the poetry as literature, Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B.C. in the context of the military and historical events of the period.
