Greek lyric poetry and its influence : texts, iconography, music and cinema / edited by Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, and Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cantarero de Salazar, Alejandro, editor.

Esteban Santos, Alicia, editor.

Arrizabalaga y Prado, Leonardo de, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 355 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This book deals with Greek lyric composed more than twenty-five centuries ago. These poems sing of everyday events and emotions in human life, from the most festive to the most serious, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume begins with a panorama of Greek lyric poetic genres, their main authors and their representative topics. The first part contains philological studies and literary analyses, first of some Greek poets--Anacreon, Sappho and Lycophron, among others--then of their influence on Horace's Latin poetry, and on contemporary poetry. The second part, illustrated with colour images, studies Greek lyric from socio-political and iconographic perspectives, analysing its coincidences and reflections in images from Greek pottery, sculptures and reliefs. In addition, this section includes two works on musical theory and composition related to ancient Greek lyric. The volume closes with two studies of the image of Sappho in cinema.

Contents:

Intro

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologo

International Advisory Board

Brief Biographies

Table of Images

I. Introduction

Introduction

II. Texts of Greek Lyric Poetry

1. Philological Studies of Greek Lyric

The Main Themes in Greek Lyric

La primera 'definicion' del amor y el primer texto 'feminista'

Anacreonte, cantor de Eros

When Doves Cry

2. Influence of Greek Lyric Poetry on Posterity

Los liricos griegos en Horacio y a traves de Horacio

Las palabras azules

The Influence of Greek Archaic Poerty on the Works of Luis Antonio de Villena

III. Greek Lyric Poetry in History, Music, Iconography and Cinema

1. Greek Lyric and History

La politica en la poesia lirica arcaica

Mito y realidad de Safo de Lesbos

2. Greek Lyric and Iconography

Iconography of Themes in Greek Lyric

The Image of the Athlete in Greek Lyric Poetry and Iconography

Colour centrefold

3. Greek Lyric and Music

Lyric Musical Practice in the Epic Context of Archaic Greece

Anacreontis Carmina

4. Greek Lyric and Cinema

Una vision breve y personal de la lirica y otros temas griegos en el cine

Sappho's Cinematographic Representation.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-6046-5

OCLC:

1228647635