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Record Nr.

UNISA996214857603316

Titolo

Greek elegiac poetry : From the seventh to the fifth centuries BC / / edited and translated by Douglas E. Gerber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-674-99582-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Loeb Classical Library ; ; 258

Disciplina

881/.0108

Soggetti

Elegiac poetry, Greek

Greece Poetry

Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Callinus -- Tyrtaeus -- Mimnermus -- Solon -- Theognis -- Philiadas -- Phocylides -- Demodocus -- Xenophanes -- Asius -- Dionysius Chalcus -- Euenus -- Critias -- Adespota.

Sommario/riassunto

The Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth century BCE that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene.