The Cambridge companion to Greek lyric / edited by Felix Budelmann.

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...

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Other Authors:	Budelmann, Felix (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:	Greek poetry > History and criticism. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

Introducing Greek lyric / Felix Budelmann
Genre, occasion and performance / Chris Carey
Greek lyric and the politics and sociologies of archaic and classical Greek
Communities / Simon Hornblower
Greek lyric and gender / Eva Stehle
Greek lyric and the place of humans in the world / Mark Griffith
Greek lyric and early Greek literary history / Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold
Language and pragmatics / Giovan Battista D'Alessio
Metre and music / Luigi Battezzato
Iambos / Chris Carey
Elegy / Antonio Aloni
Alcman, Stesichorus and Ibycus / Eveline Krummen
Alcaeus and Sappho / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Anacreon and the Anacreontea / Felix Budelmann
Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides / Hayden Pelliccia
Ancient Greek popular song / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Timotheus the new musician / Eric Csapo and Peter Wilson
Lyric in the Hellenistic period and beyond / Silvia Barbantani
Lyric in Rome / Alessandro Barchiesi
Greek lyric from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century / Pantelis Michelakis
Sappho and Pindar : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margaret
Williamson.

The Cambridge companion to Greek lyric / edited by Felix Budelmann.

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