Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

Name: Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
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ISBN: 9780521614764

ISBN-10: 0521614767

ISBN-13: 9780521614764

Edition: 2009

Authors: Felix Budelmann, Felix Budelmann

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Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes account of the exciting new papyrus finds and new critical approaches which have greatly advanced our understanding of both the corpus itself and of the sociocultural contexts in which lyric pieces were produced, performed and transmitted. Each…

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List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Felix Budelmann is University Lecturer in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College. He is author of The Language of Sophocles (2000) and is currently working on an edition with commentary of a selection from Greek lyric, and on cognitivist approaches to Greek literature.




Introducing Greek lyric




Contexts and Topics



Genre, occasion and performance




Greek lyric and the politics and sociologies of archaic and classical Greek communities




Greek lyric and gender




Greek lyric and the place of humans in the world




Greek lyric and early Greek literary history




Language and pragmatics




Metre and music




Poets and Traditions



Iambos




Elegy




Alcman, Stesichorus




Alcaeus and Sappho




Anacreon and the Anacreontea




Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides




Ancient Greek popular song




Timotheus the New Musician




Reception



Lyric in the Hellenistic period and beyond




Lyric in Rome




Greek lyric from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century




Sappho and Pindar the nineteenth and twentieth centuries




Lyric and lyrics: perspectives, ancient and modern