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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (Hardcover)
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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The polar dichotomy between man and god, and the insurmountable
gulf between them, are considered a fundamental principle of
archaic and classical Greek religion. Greek Praise Poetry and the
Rhetoric of Divinity argues that poetry produced between the eighth
and the fifth centuries BC does not present such a uniform view of
the world, demonstrating instead that particular genres of poetry
may assess the distance between humans and gods differently.
Discussion focuses on genres where the boundaries appear to be more
flexible, with wedding songs, victory odes, and selected passages
from tragedy and comedy taken as case studies that illustrate that
some human individuals may, in certain situations, be presented as
enjoying a state of happiness, a degree of beauty, or an amount of
power comparable to that of the gods. A central question throughout
is whether these presentations stem from an individual poet's
creative ingenuity or from the conventional ideological repertoire
of the respective genre, and how this difference might shape the
comparison of a human with the gods. Another important question
concerns the ritual contexts in which some of these songs would
have been performed, expanding the scope of the analysis beyond
merely a literary device to encompass a fundamental aspect of
archaic and classical Greek culture.
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