Greek elegy and iambus : a selection /

Greek elegy and iambus : a selection /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Description:	xv, 254 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English Ancient Greek
Series:	Cambridge Greek and Latin classics Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.
Subject:	Elegiac poetry, Greek. Iambic poetry, Greek. Iambic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, Greek -- History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, Greek. Iambic poetry, Greek. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12309405

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Other authors / contributors:	Allan, William, 1970- editor.
ISBN:	9781107122994 1107122996 9781107559974 1107559979
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes poems in Greek, with introduction, commentary and critical material in English.
Summary:	Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax), six elegiac (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Xenophanes, Simonides), and two writing in both forms (Archilochus and Solon). It explores a representative sample of each poet's surviving work, while also highlighting their variety, and provides an up-to-date commentary on major pieces, including recent discoveries such as Simonides' Plataea elegy and Archilochus' Telephus elegy. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as poet and persona, contexts of performance, and various cultural themes (expansion and contact with foreign cultures, social and political revolution, sexuality and gender, rationalism) as well as language, style, metre, and textual transmission. The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to scholars of early Greek literature and cultural history.

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