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Autore |
Fearn David <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Bacchylides [[electronic resource] ] : politics, performance, poetic tradition / / David Fearn |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-14943-8 |
9786611149437 |
0-19-152696-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford classical monographs |
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Soggetti |
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Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-400) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Tradition and Contextualization; I. Bacchylides Fragment 5; II. Poetic Tradition and Patronage; PART I. PRAISE; 1. The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B); 2. Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13; PART II. BACCHYLIDES' DITHYRAMBS AND THE KUKLIOS KHOROS; 3. Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception; 4. Contexts; 5. Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens; Appendix 1. Dating Bacchylides 13; Appendix 2. A New Reconstruction of Bacchylides 13.155-67; References |
Index of Passages CitedGeneral Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z |
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An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance. - ;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 |
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