Lyric poetry and social identity in archaic Greece

Lyric poetry and social identity in archaic Greece / Jessica M. Romney.

"Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece presents a study of identity rhetoric that examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines how identity rhetoric operated in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for...

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Main Author: Romney, Jessica M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Group identity in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : language and identity
  • The rhetoric and discourse of groupness
  • Constructing group identity : Tyrtaeus and martial lyric
  • Threats to social identity: Alcaeus on exile and betrayal
  • The group and the individual : Solon and political lyric
  • Conclusion : identity through poetry.

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