Poet''s Voice - Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

"Explores how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented within the poetry of ancient Greece. This revised edition, complete with substantial new Introduction, will be of vital importance to students, scholars and non-specialists intrigued by Greek literature and literary criticism more widely"--

List of contents

Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Sounding Out The Poet's Voice; 1. The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey; 2. Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar; 3. Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody; 4. Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics; 5. The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

Summary

Explores how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented within the poetry of ancient Greece. This revised edition, complete with substantial new Introduction, will be of vital importance to students, scholars and non-specialists intrigued by Greek literature and literary criticism more widely.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Goldhill, Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill, Goldhill Simon
• Assisted by: Emma Greensmith (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009478212
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947821-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Cambridge Classical Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman literature