A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets

This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory.

About the author

Douglas E. Gerber, Ph.D. (1959) in Greek, University of Toronto, is the W.S. Fox Professor and Chair of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He has published five books and numerous articles on the Greek lyric poets.

Product details

• Assisted by: Douglas E Gerber (Editor), Douglas E. Gerber (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1997
• EAN: 9789004099449
• ISBN: 978-90-04-09944-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 245 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 689 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity