Bacchylides

Bacchylides
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1905
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Art of Bacchylides

The Art of Bacchylides
Author: Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780674046665

Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.

Bacchylides

Bacchylides
Author: David Fearn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2007-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199215502

An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.

Greek Lyric Poetry

Greek Lyric Poetry
Author: M. L. West
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019954039X

The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.

Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others

Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others
Author: David A. Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN:

Bacchylides wrote masterful choral poetry of many types. Other fifth-century BC lyricists included: Myrtis, Telesilla of Argos, Timocreon of Rhodes, Charixena, Diagoras of Melos, Ion of Chios, and Praxilla of Sicyon. More of Boeotian Corinna's poetry survives than that of any other Greek woman poet except Sappho.

Bacchylides

Bacchylides
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521599771

A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).

Pindar's Eyes

Pindar's Eyes
Author: David Fearn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0198746377

Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. Its aim is to open up analysis of lyric to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early classical Greece, with particular focus on the poetic mechanisms through which Pindar's victory odes use visual and material culture to engage their audiences. Complete readings of Nemean 5, Nemean 8, and Pythian 1 reveal the poet's deep interest in the relations between lyric poetry and commemorative and religious sculpture, as well as other significant visual phenomena, while literary studies of his evocation of cultural attitudes through elaborate use of the lyric first person are combined with art-historical treatments of ecphrasis, of image and text, and of art's framing of ritual experience in ancient Greece. This specific aesthetic approach is expanded through fresh treatments of Simonides' and Bacchylides' own engagements with material culture, as well as an account of Pindaric themes in the Aeginetan logoi of Herodotus' Histories. These come together to offer not just a novel perspective on the relationship between art and text in Pindaric poetry, but to give rise to new claims about the nature of classical Greek visuality and ritual subjectivity, and to foster a richer understanding of the ways in which classical poetry and art shaped the lives and experiences of their consumers.

Epinicians

Epinicians
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519545718

Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.

The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous

The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous
Author: Floris Bernard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Byzantine poetry
ISBN: 9780674736986

The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous collects the varied Byzantine Greek verses of these witty and vibrant poets--their epigrams, satires, encomia, polemics, and more--in English for the first time.

Greek Lyric Poetry

Greek Lyric Poetry
Author: G. O. Hutchinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199265824

This book presents a new text and a detailed commentary for many of the central pieces of Greek lyric poetry. The book joins textual and literary criticism of the poets together, providing a close and sustained analysis of important poems across the genre, and enables the reader to see in detail the development and diversity of a remarkable body of poetry.