Arion's lyre : archaic lyric into Hellenistic poetry / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--Egypt--Alexandria--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaic poets often look very different in the new social, cultural, and political setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, the Alexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but has distinct associations and contexts, from Ptolemaic politics and Macedonian queens to the new phenomenon of the poetry book and an Alexandrian scholarship intent on preservation and codification. A study of Hellenistic poetic culture and an interpretation of some of the Archaic poets it so lovingly preserved, Arion's Lyre is also an examination of how one poetic culture reads another--and how modern readings of ancient poetry are filtered and shaped by earlier readings.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Preserving Her Aeolic Song

Chapter 2. Lyric into Elegy

Chapter 3. Alcaeus

Chapter 4. From Samos to Alexandria

Chapter 5. Simonides Recalled

Epilogue. Lyric Transformed

Index Locorum

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612531583

9781282531581

1282531581

9781400834891

1400834899

OCLC:

593341546