Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 866 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781107415423
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107058088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bowie, Ewen, 1940 - Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture ; Volume 1: Greek poetry before 400 BC Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781107058088
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781107415423
Author information:
Bowie, Ewen 1940-
