Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

"Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it. This book examines ancient Greek poetry, including Homer, Archilochus, Sappho, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar and Timotheus, to show how this poetry offered the embodiment of its rhythms as an answer to change and loss"--

List of contents

1. Did the heart beat? Rhythm and the body in ancient Greek poetry; 2. The substance of song: music in Homer and the Homeric Hymns; 3. The erotics of again: time and touch in Sappho; 4. Situating Simonides: stones, song, and sound; 5. Writing the future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the tablet of the mind; 6. Recovering the bodies of Archilochus' Cologne Epode and Timotheus' Persae.

About the author

SARAH NOOTER is Professor of Classics and Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge, 2012), The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge, 2017), and co-editor, with Shane Butler, of Sound and the Ancient Senses (2018). She is Editor of the journal Classical Philology.

Summary

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it. This book examines ancient Greek poetry, including Homer, Archilochus, Sappho, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar and Timotheus, to show how this poetry offered the embodiment of its rhythms as an answer to change and loss.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Nooter, Sarah (University of Chicago) Nooter, Nooter Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009320351
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932035-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets