Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition - Couverture rigide

Fearn, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199215502 ISBN 13 : 9780199215508

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Fearn is P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199215502
• ISBN 13: 9780199215508
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 442
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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