Format:
Online Ressource (xiii, 252 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781400834891
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1400834899
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
9780691095257
Additional Edition:
0691095256
Additional Edition:
9780691095257
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, 1960- Arion's lyre Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010
Language:
English
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Keywords:
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