Equine poetics / by Ryan Platte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platte, Ryan, author.

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 74.

Hellenic studies ; 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses in literature.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Horses--Greece.

Horses.

Greece.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017.

Summary:

Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of the treatment of horses and horsemanship in early Greek epic and lyric poetry, especially those facets that reflect the prehistory of Greek language and culture. This work of Classical scholarship draws from the fields of comparative poetics and historical linguistics to shed new light on fascinating and puzzling elements of these central figures of early Greek verbal art. This book begins with an analysis of Homeric formulas for horses, proposing a model by which most such formulas may be understood as members of a single verbal network, with roots in preliterate antiquity. The work then proceeds to consider the poetic relationship between horses and humans, an investigation that culminates in an analysis of the figure of the metapoetic charioteer. Finally, the work turns to a comparison of myths featuring chariot races and bridal contests. This section focuses on the supposed mythological inventiveness of Pindar's Olympian 1 and promotes a methodology, rooted in oral verse mechanics, for understanding contest-based mythical parallels, in Greece and beyond, that have defied easy historical explanations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Swift Horses" from Proto-Indo-European to Greek 7

Chapter 2 Horses, Heroes, and Sacrifice 35

Chapter 3 Lyric Horses 69

Chapter 4 Chariots and the Ιππιος Νομος 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Platte, Ryan. Equine poetics.

ISBN:

9780674975705

0674975707

OCLC:

976423777

Publisher Number:

40027111891