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xi, 196 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index. |
| Contents |
Ancient Greece -- The Archaic Period -- Alcman -- 26--A Partheneion or Maidens' Song -- Sappho -- 1--Hymn to Aphrodite -- 16--"Some say an army of horse, some of foot" -- 31--"I think he's equal to the gods" -- 47--"Eros has shattered my heart" -- 102--"Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom" -- 105c--"Just as in the mountains the shepherd men trample a hyacinth" -- 111--"Raise high the roof-beam!" -- 130--"Once again limb-loosening Eros shakes me" -- 140--"He is dying, Cytherea, graceful Adonis. What shall we do?" -- The Classical Period -- Aristophanes -- Ecclesiazusae ("Women at the Assembly") 952a-68b -- Euripides -- Medea 465-519 -- The Trojan Women 657-83 -- The Hellenistic and Roman Periods -- Theocritus -- Idyll 18 (Epithalamion for Helen) 9-58 -- Anonymous -- The Locrian Song -- Ancient Rome -- Catullus -- Carmina 64.124-201--Lament of Ariadne -- Virgil -- Aeneid 4.305-30, 365-87--Two laments of Dido -- Sulpicia -- Carmina Tibulli 3.13-18--Six love poems -- Ovid -- Heroides 10.1-36, 59-74, 145-50--Lament of Ariadne -- Ovid? -- Heroides 15, (Epistula Sapphus) 1-20, 123-34, 157-72, 195-220--Lament of Sappho -- Ireland -- Crede's Lament for Cael -- Anglo-Saxon England -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- The Wife's Lament -- Scandinavia or Iceland -- Gudrunarkvida in fyrsta ("The First Lay of Guthrun") -- Early Medieval Spain -- Arabic -- Wallada -- Ana wa-l-Lahi asluhu li-l-ma'ali--"I am, by God, made for glory" -- Taraqqab idha janna l-zalamu ziyarati--"When night falls, plan to visit me." |
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Poetry, Ancient.
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Poetry, Medieval.
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Lyric poetry.
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Poetry, Ancient -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Lyric poetry. (OCoLC)fst01004373
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Poetry, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst01067762
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Poetry, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01067764
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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| Added Author |
Klinck, Anne L., 1943-
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| ISBN |
1403963096 (hardback) |
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9781403963093 (hardback) |
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140396310X (pbk.) |
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9781403963109 (pbk.) |
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