Silvia Barbantani
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Barbantani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbantani |
| SIGNATURE | BARBANTANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5668-7396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Farewell to Arms – Farewell in Arms: Depictions of Weapons on Stone and in Hellenistic Inscriptional Epigrams
Through four case studies I discuss the importance and frequency of the appearance of weapons (an important element of epic imagery) in funerary poetry, and its relation to representations of arms on gravestones and monuments in the Hellenistic period, geographically ranging from Lycia and Caria to the Black Sea, from mainland Greece to the Aegean islands. One of the most common features of poetic epitaphs for soldiers (including citizens, mercen…
Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for “Everlasting Fame” in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs
Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness
Chapter 10 studies Hellenistic and Roman military epitaphs and addresses a number of interconnected issues: the unpopularity of epitaphs for individual soldiers in the Greek Anthology (only a dozen of such epigrams are present, leaving side fictitious pieces for literary or historical figures); the near absence of inscribed epitaphs in literary sources, despite the fact that they are often of good literary quality; and the question of their autho…
A Survey of Lyric Genres in Hellenistic Poetry: The Hymn. Transformation, Adaptation, Experimentation
The paper is the first part of S. Barbantani’s contribution Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry, in E. Sistakou (ed.), Hellenistic Lyricism: Traditions and Transformations of a Literary Mode (Trends in Classics 9, 2), Berlin - Boston 2017, 339-399 (which discusses encomiastic lyric, epinikion in Callimachus, Posidippus and inscriptional epigram, literary epithalamia, threnoi…
Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry
This is a meticulous survey of the reception of some lyric subgenres in Hellenistic poetry and it is meant to be the first of a series of contributions on the subject. Leaving aside lyric in a religious context, the paper is divided into two main sections, namely lyric poetry composed for rulers and lyric poetry written for everyday people. In the new social context lyric poetry was intended for presentation in the royal symposia. The Alexandrian…
Hellenistic Epinician
Journal Article HELLENISTIC EPINICIAN Get access Silvia Barbantani Silvia Barbantani Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 55, Issue Supplement_112, June 2012, Pages 37–55, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2012.tb00072.x Published: 24 March 2015
Callimachus on Kings and Kingship
In Aetia fr. 1.3–5 Pfeiffer Callimachus complains that his adversaries, the Telchines, accuse him of not writing “one continuous poem in many thousands of verses,” celebrating “kings and heroes.” Callimachus did choose to celebrate kings and heroes, but in poetry that is subtle, brief, allusive, learned, and ironic. Contemporary kings occur particularly in the hymns to Zeus, Apollo, and Delos, while queens are more prominent in the Aetia. Hesiod …
Chapitre XI. Idéologie royale et littérature de cour dans l’Égypte lagide
1. LA POÉSIE DE COUR EST-ELLE PROPAGANDE ? Pendant longtemps, la « poésie de cour », née dans les cercles de la Bibliothèque et du Musée d’Alexandrie, a été quelque peu méprisée, car considérée comme une simple émanation du pouvoir lagide. Plus récemment, la prise de conscience des mécanismes qui régissent les rapports entre auteur et public, la curiosité accrue envers le domaine de la performance et de plus précises définitions des genres littér…
Lyric in the Hellenistic period and beyond
Like the works of Homer, Euripides and other classical authors, early lyric poetry quickly became part of the cultural treasure of the Greeks, even when - or should I say particularly when - they moved abroad, in search of a new life in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Egypt and Asia. Archaic melic, iambic and elegiac poems were no longer performed by the third century BCE, but they were studied carefully by philologists and, in selection, formed part…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes …
Inscribing Lyric
Erinna: Testimonianze e Frammenti. Studi di Eikasmos, 9
Goddess of Love and Mistress of the Sea
Φάτις Νικηφόρος: Frammenti di elegia encomiastica nell'età delle Guerre Galatiche: Supplementum Hellenisticum 958 e 969
The Epigrams Ascribed to Theocritus: A Method of Approach
This book is the first full-scale commentary on the epigrams ascribed to Theocritus since Gow's commented edition of 1950 and the first to methodically approach epigram as a literary genre attempting to bridge the gap between epigraphy and philological studies. The introductory chapters trace the history of the various epigrammatic genres and typologies within which the Theocritean epigrams can be inserted, focusing on both the literary and epigr…
The Epigrams Ascribed to Theocritus: A Method of Approach
This book is the first full-scale commentary on the epigrams ascribed to Theocritus since Gow's commented edition of 1950 and the first to methodically approach epigram as a literary genre attempting to bridge the gap between epigraphy and philological studies. The introductory chapters trace the history of the various epigrammatic genres and typologies within which the Theocritean epigrams can be inserted, focusing on both the literary and epigr…
Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry
This is a meticulous survey of the reception of some lyric subgenres in Hellenistic poetry and it is meant to be the first of a series of contributions on the subject. Leaving aside lyric in a religious context, the paper is divided into two main sections, namely lyric poetry composed for rulers and lyric poetry written for everyday people. In the new social context lyric poetry was intended for presentation in the royal symposia. The Alexandrian…
Goddess of Love and Mistress of the Sea
Φάτις Νικηφόρος: Frammenti di elegia encomiastica nell'età delle Guerre Galatiche: Supplementum Hellenisticum 958 e 969
The Epigrams Ascribed to Theocritus: A Method of Approach
This book is the first full-scale commentary on the epigrams ascribed to Theocritus since Gow's commented edition of 1950 and the first to methodically approach epigram as a literary genre attempting to bridge the gap between epigraphy and philological studies. The introductory chapters trace the history of the various epigrammatic genres and typologies within which the Theocritean epigrams can be inserted, focusing on both the literary and epigr…
Erinna: Testimonianze e Frammenti. Studi di Eikasmos, 9
Goddess of Love and Mistress of the Sea
Inscribing Lyric
Lyric in the Hellenistic period and beyond
Like the works of Homer, Euripides and other classical authors, early lyric poetry quickly became part of the cultural treasure of the Greeks, even when - or should I say particularly when - they moved abroad, in search of a new life in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Egypt and Asia. Archaic melic, iambic and elegiac poems were no longer performed by the third century BCE, but they were studied carefully by philologists and, in selection, formed part…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes …
Chapitre XI. Idéologie royale et littérature de cour dans l’Égypte lagide
1. LA POÉSIE DE COUR EST-ELLE PROPAGANDE ? Pendant longtemps, la « poésie de cour », née dans les cercles de la Bibliothèque et du Musée d’Alexandrie, a été quelque peu méprisée, car considérée comme une simple émanation du pouvoir lagide. Plus récemment, la prise de conscience des mécanismes qui régissent les rapports entre auteur et public, la curiosité accrue envers le domaine de la performance et de plus précises définitions des genres littér…
Callimachus on Kings and Kingship
In Aetia fr. 1.3–5 Pfeiffer Callimachus complains that his adversaries, the Telchines, accuse him of not writing “one continuous poem in many thousands of verses,” celebrating “kings and heroes.” Callimachus did choose to celebrate kings and heroes, but in poetry that is subtle, brief, allusive, learned, and ironic. Contemporary kings occur particularly in the hymns to Zeus, Apollo, and Delos, while queens are more prominent in the Aetia. Hesiod …
Hellenistic Epinician
Journal Article HELLENISTIC EPINICIAN Get access Silvia Barbantani Silvia Barbantani Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 55, Issue Supplement_112, June 2012, Pages 37–55, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2012.tb00072.x Published: 24 March 2015
Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry
This is a meticulous survey of the reception of some lyric subgenres in Hellenistic poetry and it is meant to be the first of a series of contributions on the subject. Leaving aside lyric in a religious context, the paper is divided into two main sections, namely lyric poetry composed for rulers and lyric poetry written for everyday people. In the new social context lyric poetry was intended for presentation in the royal symposia. The Alexandrian…
A Survey of Lyric Genres in Hellenistic Poetry: The Hymn. Transformation, Adaptation, Experimentation
The paper is the first part of S. Barbantani’s contribution Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the People: The Transformation of Some Lyric Subgenres in Hellenistic Poetry, in E. Sistakou (ed.), Hellenistic Lyricism: Traditions and Transformations of a Literary Mode (Trends in Classics 9, 2), Berlin - Boston 2017, 339-399 (which discusses encomiastic lyric, epinikion in Callimachus, Posidippus and inscriptional epigram, literary epithalamia, threnoi…
Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus: Questions of Authorship and Literariness
Chapter 10 studies Hellenistic and Roman military epitaphs and addresses a number of interconnected issues: the unpopularity of epitaphs for individual soldiers in the Greek Anthology (only a dozen of such epigrams are present, leaving side fictitious pieces for literary or historical figures); the near absence of inscribed epitaphs in literary sources, despite the fact that they are often of good literary quality; and the question of their autho…
Models of Virtue, Models of Poetry: The Quest for “Everlasting Fame” in Hellenistic Military Epitaphs
Farewell to Arms – Farewell in Arms: Depictions of Weapons on Stone and in Hellenistic Inscriptional Epigrams
Through four case studies I discuss the importance and frequency of the appearance of weapons (an important element of epic imagery) in funerary poetry, and its relation to representations of arms on gravestones and monuments in the Hellenistic period, geographically ranging from Lycia and Caria to the Black Sea, from mainland Greece to the Aegean islands. One of the most common features of poetic epitaphs for soldiers (including citizens, mercen…
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