The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy.
Title:
The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy.
Author:
Faraone, Christopher A.
ISBN:
9780191553189
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Note on Abbreviations and Transliterations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal Structure -- 2.1 Stanzas with an Internal Twist -- 2.2 Ring-Composition and Prayers -- 2.3 Catalogues and Priamels -- 3. Composition -- 3.1 Alternation -- 3.2 Coordination -- 4. Performance -- 4.1 The Sympotic Setting -- 4.2 Generic 'City-Poems' as Vehicles for Political Debate -- 4.3 A Fragment of a Theognidean Chain -- 5. Improvisation -- 6. Innovation and Archaism -- 6.1 The Six-Couplet Stanzas of Xenophanes -- 6.2 Euripides Andromache 103-16 and the Tradition of Elegiac Lament -- 7. Revival -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendices -- I: Elegiac Digressions (Mimnermus 12) -- II: Solon 4 ('Eunomia') -- III: Theognidea 133-42 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- X -- Z -- Index of Greek Words and Terms.
Abstract:
A study of poetic form in early Greek elegy. Christopher A. Faraone draws on analogies from Italian and English song and poetry of the Renaissance. All Greek is translated and all technical terms explained.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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