| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preserving her Aeolic song : traces of Alexandrian Sappho -- Lyric into elegy : Sappho again -- Alcaeus : voice and metaphor of the symposium -- From Samos to Alexandria : earlier court poets and their legacies -- Simonides recalled : imitations of a poikilos original -- Lyric transformed. |
| 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 contex. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History and criticism.
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Intertextuality.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Greek poetry. (OCoLC)fst00947503
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic. (OCoLC)fst00947510
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Intertextuality. (OCoLC)fst00977562
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Egypt -- Alexandria.
(OCoLC)fst01208911
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, 1960- Arion's lyre. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691095257 (DLC) 2009021125 (OCoLC)373474460 |
| ISBN |
9781400834891 (electronic bk.) |
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1400834899 (electronic bk.) |
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