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| Author | : Mary R. Lefkowitz |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2012-04-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1421404648 |
Renowned scholar Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her 1981 classic to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets’ own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created, and she offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets’ lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition. Accessible to students and readers unfamiliar with ancient Greece as well as to scholars, this comprehensive and compelling study includes translations of the original biographies of seven of ancient Greece’s most storied poets.
| Author | : Mary R. Lefkowitz |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2013-03-14 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1472503074 |
Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.
| Author | : Michael Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2010-04-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307556174 |
A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, “the dirty old man of poetry,” to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Muses–the stories in The First Poets masterfully merge fact and conjecture into animated and compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
| Author | : Maarit Kivilo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Addington Symonds |
| Publisher | : London [Eng.] Smith, Elder |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1876 |
| Genre | : Greek poetry |
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| Author | : Richard Hunter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2009-02-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521898781 |
Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
| Author | : Bruno Gentili |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1990-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
| Author | : Basil Kennett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 1697 |
| Genre | : Greek poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Maarit Kivilo |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2010-09-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004193286 |
This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”
| Author | : Karen Van Dyck |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2017-03-28 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1681371146 |
A remarkable collection of poetic voices from contemporary Greece, Austerity Measures is a one-of-a-kind window into the creative energy that has arisen from the country's decade of crisis and a glimpse into what it is like to be Greek today. The 2008 debt crisis shook Greece to the core and went on to shake the world. More recently, Greece has become one of the main channels into Europe for refugees from poverty and war. Greece stands at the center of today’s most intractable conflicts, and this situation has led to a truly extraordinary efflorescence of innovative and powerfully moving Greek poetry. Karen Van Dyck’s wide-ranging bilingual anthology—which covers the whole contemporary Greek poetry scene, from literary poets to poets of the spoken word to poets online, and more—offers an unequaled sampling of some of the richest and most exciting poetry of our time.
