A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegiac and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public. The book takes a critical look at scholarly trends applied in interpreting this poetry, exploring, for example, the problems of defining the nature of the elegiac genre, the origins of iambic poetry, the personal voice used by the poets, and the validity of historical criticism. Appearing in the Classical Tradition series, it considers the impact of modern literary theory on the reading of these texts - for instance the new interpretations suggested by feminism - and guides readers to a full bibliography on scholarly debates from the 19th century to the present. Contents 5 Preface 7 General Introduction 9 Iambos 18 Introduction 20 Archilochus 50 Semonides 77 Hipponax 86 Elegy 96 Introduction 98 Callinus 106 Tyrtaeus 109 Mimnermus 115 Solon 120 Theognis 124 Xenophanes 136 Personal Poetry 140 Alcaeus 142 Sappho 163 Ibycus 194 Anacreon 205 Corinna 220 Public Poetry 228 Alcman 230 Stesichorus 239 Simonides 250 Pindar 260 Bacchylides 285 Indices 295 1.Greek Index 295 2.Passages Discussed 296 3.General Index 297 Cropped,by,pdfscissors.com This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory. This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegaic and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public.