Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence
Subtitle: Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema
By: edited by Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, and Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Language: eng; gre; spa
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781527559868
Subjects: Greek poetry; History and criticism
Description: This book deals with Greek lyric composed more than twenty-five centuries ago. These poems sing of everyday events and emotions in human life, from the most festive to the most serious, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume begins with a panorama of Greek lyric poetic genres, their main authors and their representative topics. The first part contains philological studies and literary analyses, first of some Greek poets--Anacreon, Sappho and Lycophron, among others--then of their influence on Horace's Latin poetry, and on contemporary poetry.