Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Peter Gainsford received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999, and has since taught at the University of Manchester, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of several articles on Homeric narrative and linguistics, literary criticism, Dictys of Crete, and comparative mythology. Klappentext This book provides an introduction to all genres of early hexameter poetry, introducing readers to extant and fragmentary works. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to give an introduction to all genres of early hexameter poetry. It introduces readers to extant and fragmentary works! and is an ideal source for up-to-date research on literary criticism and literary form! mythology and genre! language and metre! and performance and music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Poems: 1. The Hesiodic works and days; 2. The Hesiodic theogony; 3. The Hesiodic catalogue of women; 4. The Hesiodic shield; 5. The Homeric hymns; 6. The epic cycle; 7. Oracle collectors (chresmologoi); 8. Epigraphy; Part II. Genre: 9. Large-scale: overarching topics and themes; 10. Medium-scale: sub-themes and major structural features; 11. Small-scale: tropes and stylistic features; Part III. Tradition and Legend: 12. Unrecorded traditions; 13. Hexameter and the formula; 14. Pre history of the epic tradition; Part IV. Performance: 15. Musical instruments; 16. Rhythm; 17. Pitch and melody; 18. Performance context; Part V. Fragments: 19. Introduction to fragments; 20. Examples of fragments; 21. How to approach a fragmentary text; 22. Vestigial fragments; Part VI. Relationship between Poems: 23. Modern scholarship: neoanalysis and other 'systemic' interpretations; 24. Ancient transmission: cropping and splicing; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Gainsford, Peter (Victoria University of Wellingto Gainsford
• Assisted by: Peter Gainsford (Editor), Peter (Victoria University of Wellington) Gainsford (Editor), Gainsford Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9781316608883
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60888-3
• No. of pages: 159
• Series: New Surveys in the Classics; New Surveys in the Classics; New Surveys in the Classics S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval