Author: BacchylidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Bacchylides
Author: BacchylidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Art of Bacchylides
Author: Anne Pippin BurnettPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674046665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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
Author: David FearnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199215502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
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
Author: M. L. WestPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019954039X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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
Author: David A. CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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
Author: BacchylidesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).
Epinicians
Author: BacchylidesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519545718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
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.
Bacchylides
Author: BacchylidesPublisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Presents the victory poems of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides. This translation captures the tone of the original, combining the joy of the occasion with the ever-present serious moral undertones, while the introduction sets the poems in their social and religious context, detailing the connection between competition and religious festival.
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
Author: Margaret FosterPublisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN: 9789004411425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetryforegrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Mathieu de BakkerPublisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN: 9789004498808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
"Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and 'speech in speech' are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak"--