Bacchylides - Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

Zusatztext ...the first English-language monograph on Bacchylides in more than twenty years. This book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. Informationen zum Autor David Fearn is P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Klappentext Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities. Zusammenfassung An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tradition and Contextualization I. Praise 1: The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B) 2: Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13 II. Bacchylides Dithyrambs and the Kuklios Khoros 3: Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception 4: Contexts 5: Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: David Fearn, David Fearns
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2007
• EAN: 9780199215508
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921550-8
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Early Music (Up To C 1000 Ce)