Bacchylides : politics, performance, poetic tradition / David Fearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fearn, David, 1975-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Laudatory poetry, Greek.

Bacchylides--Criticism and interpretation.

Bacchylides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 wide range of earlier Greek literature not only

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-400) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-14943-8

9786611149437

0-19-152696-7

OCLC:

437092689