Greek Lyric: A Selection
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521633871
- ISBN10 0521633877
- Type Book
- Pages 338
- Collection Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #
- Published 2018
- Language Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
Bilingual Greek ClassicsGreek Lyric: A Selection
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina convivalia and passages from Timotheus' Persians.
Both longer and shorter pieces are included. The Introduction discusses major issues in the study of Greek lyric including genre, performance and transmission. The commentary is literary in emphasis but also treats questions of syntax, textual reconstruction, metre and dialect.
The volume will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars.