Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece
Subtitle: From Homer to the Fifth Century
Contributors: A. Thomas Cole (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801840197
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; History - General History; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: So goes a famous fragment of Archilochus, composed in the early seventh century B.C. by the poet whom the Greeks of a later period regarded as the inventor of invective, satire, and iambic verse.