Arion's Lyre : Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry

by: Acosta-Hughes, B.

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 Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaic poets often look very different in the new social, cultural, and political setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, the Alexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but has distinct associations and contex

Preserving her Aeolic song : traces of Alexandrian Sappho
Lyric into elegy : Sappho again
Alcaeus : voice and metaphor of the symposium
From Samos to Alexandria : earlier court poets and their legacies
Simonides recalled : imitations of a poikilos original
Lyric transformed

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Egypt Alexandria
Greek poetry
Greek poetry History and criticism
Greek poetry, Hellenistic
Greek poetry, Hellenistic Egypt Alexandria History and criticism
Intertextualité
Intertextuality
LITERARY CRITICISM Ancient & Classical
Poésie grecque Histoire et critique
Poésie grecque hellénistique Égypte Alexandrie Histoire et critique

Arion's Lyre : Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry

by: Acosta-Hughes, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780691095257 / 978-0-691-09525-7
• ISBN-03: 0691095256 / 0-691-09525-6
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2010

Price: 37,00 EURO

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