A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets: 173 (Mnemosyne, Supplements) - Softcover

A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets.

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Buchbeschreibung Original brochure. Zustand: Sehr gut. 292 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Zustand: Vereinzelte Anstreichungen. Ansonsten im einwandfreien Zustand. / Condition: Scattered markings. Otherwise in perfect condition. - Content: General Introduction - Douglas E. Gerber (University of Western Ontario); Iambos - Christopher G. Brown (University of Western Ontario); Elegy - Douglas E. Gerber (University of Western Ontario); Personal Poetry - Bonnie C. MacLachlan (University of Western Ontario); Public Poetry - Emmet Robbins (University of Toronto); Each section in this introduction deserves far more space than can be allotted here. Some sections, in fact, would require an entire book, in order to receive a full treatment. Of necessity, therefore, I can do little more than give a brief account of the main issues and provide bibliographical aid for further study. Also, some of what might be included here is reserved for the introduction to elegy. When we speak of early Greek lyric poetry it is customary to include under this heading all poetry from the 7th to the mid-5th century B.C. with the exception of stichic hexameters and drama. The term lyric, however, is something of a misnomer. It implies that such poetry was accompanied on a stringed instrument,1 which was certainly not true of most iambus and elegy; it does not take account of the aulos,2 a wind instrument which at least sometimes accompanied elegy and which could also accompany Pindar s epinician odes;3 and it fails to recognize that some poetry, especially iambus, may not have had any musical accompaniment.4 Furthermore, the Greeks themselves did not use the word XvpiKÔç as a generic term until quite late.5 Since péXoç was a common word for song, appearing as early as Archilochus, some prefer to distinguish between iambic and elegiac poetry on the one hand and melic on the other, the latter including both monodic and choral song. This too is inadequate, since elegy was often sung and the same must have been true for epodes. In spite of these inaccuracies, however, lyric remains the common designation for the different kinds of poetry surveyed in this book. The terms monodic and choral are clear enough, but a problem arises when we try to determine whether a particular fragment or poem belongs to one category or the other. Here it must suffice to refer to the article by Malcolm Davies6 who rightly exposes the errors in the commonly-held view that certain poets were exclusively monodic or choral. Because, for example, Aleman s maiden-songs were clearly choral, this does not justify our categorizing him as simply a choral poet and our assuming that every extant verse is choral. Many Greek poets were extremely versatile and composed more than one type of poetry. ISBN 9789004206090 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450. Artikel-Nr. 1171839

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