Greek poetry
Subtitle: from Homer to Seferis
By: by C.A. Trypanis.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 896
Subjects: Greek poetry -- History and criticism.; Byzantine poetry -- History and criticism.; Greek poetry, Modern -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [789]-885.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: From the Mycenaean world to the Persian wars (C.2000-490 B.C.). The origins of the Greek poetic tradition -- The Homeric epics -- Hesiod -- The Homeric hymns -- Epic poetry other than the Homeric and the Hesiodic -- Iambic poetry -- Elegiac poetry -- Epigram and scolion -- Monody (citharoedia) -- Choral lyric poetry -- From the Persian wars to the death of Alexander (490-323 B.C.). Dithyramb and tragedy -- The satyr play and the origins of tragedy -- The performance of tragic drama -- The great tragedians -- The lesser tragedians -- Old comedy -- Middle comedy -- Lyric poetry -- Elegiac and epic poetry -- The Alexandrian age (323-146 B.C.). The structure and preoccupations of new comedy -- The poets of new comedy -- Alexandrian elegy before Callimachus -- Callimachus the Cyrenian -- Alexandrian elegy after Callimachus -- The epyllion -- The long Alexandrian epic -- The didactic epic -- Tragedy -- The satyr play -- Comedy -- The mime -- Obscene, satirical and humorous verse -- Popular moralizing verse -- Lyric poetry and hymnography -- The Alexandrian epigram -- Technopaegnia --  Priapea -- The Greco-Roman world : The transition to classicism (146 B.C.-A.D.100). Pastoral poetry -- Epic poetry -- Elegiac poetry -- The epigram -- Dramatic poetry -- The mime and the pantomime -- Lyric poetry and hymnody -- Hellenistic Jewish poetry -- The Greco-Roman world : The age of classicism (A.D.100-330).  Didactic poetry -- Mythological and historical epics -- Drama and the mime -- Lyric poetry -- The epigram -- The period of transition from the ancient world to the Middle ages (330-641). The epic -- Lyric poetry -- Christian poetry in ancient metres -- Christian poetry in the new rhythmic metres -- From Heraclius to the restoration of the images (641-843).  Religious poetry -- Secular poetry : a period of obscurity -- From the restoration of the images to the Fourth Crusade (843-1204). Verse composed in ancient metres -- Verse in rhythmic metres : religious poetry in decline -- Parodies of religious verse -- Religious poetry in political fifteen-syllable verse -- Verse in the purest idiom -- Poetry composed in the vernacular -- From the conquest of Constantinople by the Franks to the fall of the City to the Turks (1204-1453). Religious poetry -- Poetry in the purest idiom -- Poetry in the vernacular -- The Greeks under the Franks (1204-1797). Romances of love and chivalry -- Historical poems -- The Aegean islands -- Rhodes -- Cyprus -- Crete -- The Ionian islands -- The Greeks of the Diaspora -- The Greeks under the Turks (1453-1829). Laments on the fall of Constantinople and Athens -- Modern Greek folk songs -- Personal poetry under the Turks -- Modern Greece (1829-1940). The initial stage of the old school of Athens (1830-50) -- The middle years of the old school (1850-70) -- The end of the old school (1870-80) -- The forerunners of the Ionian school -- The major poets of the Ionian school -- The forerunners of the new school -- The ‘generation of the eighties’ -- The poets of the turn of the century -- The demotic movement and Greek poetry composed outside Greece -- The second ‘post-Palmas’ generation (‘the generation of 1905’) -- The ‘cosmopolitan poets’ (1915-25) -- Other poets of the 1920s -- Constantine Cavafy -- The poets of the 1930s -- Conclusion.