Early Greek Poets Lives

Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307556172

Get Book

The First Poets by Michael Schmidt Pdf

A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, “the dirty old man of poetry,” to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Muses–the stories in The First Poets masterfully merge fact and conjecture into animated and compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.

Author : Maarit Kivilo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848849487

Get Book

Early Greek Poets' Lives by Maarit Kivilo Pdf

Author : Maarit Kivilo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004193284

Get Book

Early Greek Poets' Lives by Maarit Kivilo Pdf

This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781472503084

Get Book

The Lives of the Greek Poets by Mary R. Lefkowitz Pdf

Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.

Author : Anthony J. Podlecki
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780774845045

Get Book

The Early Greek Poets and Their Times by Anthony J. Podlecki Pdf

This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Instead of concentrating on the poetry as literature, Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B.C. in the context of the military and historical events of the period.

Author : Maarit Kivilo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282948822

Get Book

Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume 322: Early Greek Poets' Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition by Maarit Kivilo Pdf

Author : Bruno Gentili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4967978

Get Book

Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece by Bruno Gentili Pdf

Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781472503077

Get Book

The Lives of the Greek Poets by Mary R. Lefkowitz Pdf

Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.

Author : Alex Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107086593

Get Book

Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy by Alex Long Pdf

Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393242249

Get Book

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman Pdf

An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.

Author : Michael John Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, Greek
ISBN : 0198150644

Get Book

The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art by Michael John Anderson Pdf

Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra,the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one anotherand intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry, and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes onpainted vases.

Author : Michael Stephen Silk,Michael S. Silk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521024609

Get Book

Interaction in Poetic Imagery by Michael Stephen Silk,Michael S. Silk Pdf

This book should be of interest to classicists and to specialists in literary theory in departments of English, Linguistics and Comparative Literature.

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368189013

Get Book

Studies of the Greek Poets by John Addington Symonds Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Richard Hunter,Ian Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521898782

Get Book

Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture by Richard Hunter,Ian Rutherford Pdf

Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

Author : Hesiod,Richard Hamilton,Rebecca Ruttenberg
Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Didactic poetry, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015056165114

Get Book

Hesiod's Works and days by Hesiod,Richard Hamilton,Rebecca Ruttenberg Pdf

This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's "Works and Days" is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose "Works and Days" discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to "Works and Days" for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of "Works and Days."