Authorship and Greek Song: Authority, Authenticity, and Performance - Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 3

Authorship and Greek Song offers critical discussions of the concept of authorship in archaic Greek poetry. Its chapters explore the issue of authority (of poet-author and/or performer) and the transition from song (performed) to poem (read).

About the author

Egbert J. Bakker (PhD 1988, Leiden) is the Alvan Talcott Professor of Greek at Yale University. His books include The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey (Cambridge, 2013) and Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, 1997).

Contributors are: Egbert J. Bakker, Nicholas Boterf, Leanna Boychenko, Christopher Carey, Jesús Carruesco, Sarah Harden, Jacqueline Klooster, Vayos Liapis, Richard P. Martin, Irene Peirano-Garrison, Elisabetta Pitotto, Amedeo Raschieri, Eva Stehle, and Laura Swift.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2017
• EAN: 9789004339699
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33969-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity