Bacchylides
Subtitle: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199215508
Subjects: Early music (up to c 1000 CE); European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Europe; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Bacchylides; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Laudatory poetry, Greek
Description: This is an original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.