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Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture - Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism

English · Paperback / Softback

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Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

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List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Richard Hunter and Ian Rutherford; 2. Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts and festivals Mary Bachvarova; 3. Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet? Peter Wilson; 4. Read on arrival Richard P. Martin; 5. Wandering poets, archaic style Ewen Bowie; 6. Defining local communities in Greek lyric poetry Giovan Battista D'Alessio; 7. Wandering poetry, 'travelling' music: Timotheus' Muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities Lucia Prauscello; 8. Epigrammatic contest, poeti vaganti and local history Andrej Petrovic; 9. World travellers: the associations of Artists of Dionysus Sophia Aneziri; 10. Aristodama and the Aetolians: an itinerant poetess and her agenda Ian Rutherford; 11. Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world Angelos Chaniotis; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Poets in ancient Greece travelled in search of commissions and to celebrate local communities, rather than staying put in and only writing for their own cities. This volume explores this central feature of ancient culture, setting wandering poets within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

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