Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

ISBN-13: 9781009320351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 228 str.

Sarah (University of Chicago) Nooter

Opis

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

Recenzje

'I loved this book. Written with style and wit, Nooter's Greek Poetry in The Age of Ephemerality breathes new life into archaic Greek lyric. Avoiding reductive binaries and clichéd notions of ephemerality and permanence, Nooter reanimates both ancient and contemporary ideas about poetry and poetic immortality. Attuned to extraordinary affect as well as to life's more ordinary rhythms and temporalities, her readings show us how the body itself endures, whether in mummified form, as a chorus of dancers, or as the movement, rhythm, and sound that both originate from and return us to poet and performer.' Melissa Mueller, Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Spis treści

1. Did the heart beat? Rhythm and the body in ancient Greek poetry; 2. The substance of song: music in Homer and the Homeric Hymns; 3. The erotics of again: time and touch in Sappho; 4. Situating Simonides: stones, song, and sound; 5. Writing the future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the tablet of the mind; 6. Recovering the bodies of Archilochus' Cologne Epode and Timotheus' Persae.