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Bacchylides - Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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Bacchylides - Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close
literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion
of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing
political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC.
In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet
manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to
elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke
thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic
society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through
detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros
('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different
religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links
created between literary concerns and cultural contexts
reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central
importance for the self-definition of political communities.
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