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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together
his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of
early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its
relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early
Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters
have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance
of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their
performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded
fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another
chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and
performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead
that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in
the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored
in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of
collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and
culture.
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