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Greek Elegy and Iambus : A Selection

by: Allan, W.

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Code: 25262
ISBN-13: 9781107559974 / 978-1-107-55997-4
ISBN-10: 1107559979 / 1-107-55997-9
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 254
Book Condition: New
Comments: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax), six elegiac (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Xenophanes, Simonides), and two writing in both forms (Archilochus and Solon). It explores a representative sample of each poet's surviving work, while also highlighting their variety, and provides an up-to-date commentary on major pieces, including recent discoveries such as Simonides' Plataea elegy and Archilochus' Telephus elegy. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as poet and persona, contexts of performance, and various cultural themes (expansion and contact with foreign cultures, social and political revolution, sexuality and gender, rationalism) as well as language, style, metre, and textual transmission. The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to scholars of early Greek literature and cultural history.

Provides an excellent introduction to these important forms of Greek literature through a representative sample of the work of ten poets
Includes some recent discoveries such as Simonides' Plataea elegy and Archilochus' Telephus elegy
The up-to-date introduction and commentary provide linguistic help as well as literary and cultural analysis

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Elegy and iambus as poetic forms
2. Performance and mobility
3. Poets and personae
4. Society and culture
5. Language, style, metre
6. Transmission of the text
Greek elegy and Iambus: A Selection: Archilochus
Semonides
Callinus
Tyrtaeus
Mimnermus
Solon
Theognis
Xenophanes
Hipponax
Simonides
Commentary.

 
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