The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

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ID19904070
AuthorsChris Carey (0000-0001-7459-9640), Simon Hornblower, Eva Stehle, Mark Griffith, Barbara Graziosi, Giovan Battista D’Alessio, Luigi Battezzato (0000-0002-7883-4182), Antonio Aloni, Eveline Krummen, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Hayden Pelliccia, Eric Csapo, Silvia Barbantani (0000-0002-5668-7396), Alessandro Barchiesi, Pantelis Michelakis (0000-0002-4005-2898), Margaret Williamson (0000-0002-8389-3611), Michael Silk (0000-0002-7549-0919)
EditorsFelix Budelmann
Year2009
Pages484
Publication date2009-04-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cambridge companion to Greek lyric (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol9780521849449
OpenAlexW564035103
Open LibraryOL23021882M
ISBN9780521849449
LanguageEN
Citations received61

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 account of the exciting new papyrus finds and new critical approaches which have greatly advanced our understanding of both the corpus itself and of the sociocultural contexts in which lyric pieces were produced, performed and transmitted. Each chapter is provided with a guide to further reading, and the volume includes a chronology, glossary and guide to editions and translations

Art · Elegy · Glossary · Linguistics · Literature · Papyrus · Poetry · Reading (process) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · History and criticism

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