The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781108401661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 387 str.

Pauline A. Leven

Opis

This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture.

Recenzje

'The reader will be impressed by the detailed analysis of the poems as well as by the insightful engagement with other sources … the publication of the first ever monograph to be devoted entirely to … late classical Greek lyric poetry deserves to be celebrated.' Theodora A. Hadjimichael, Greek and Roman Musical Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: definitions, methods, prejudices of reception; 1. A collection of unrecollected authors? The corpus and its problems; 2. New music and its myths: rhetoric, persona, and the theatre stage; 3. Musical lives: reading through the lives of the poets; 4. The language of new music: poetics of compounds and baroque aesthetics; 5. From authority to fantasy: narrative, voice, fictionality; 6. A canon set in stone? Epigraphy, literacy, musical tourism; Conclusion.