The idea of iambos
By: Andrea Rotstein
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780199286270
Description: "Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of ancient theories of genres and the way they affected ancient scholarship. Rotstein also examines the possibility of musical performance of iambic poetry as well as the various occasions of public performance, particularly at musical contests and rhapsodic recitals. Finally, she argues that, from the Archaic to the Classical period, there was a shift from the notion of literary class depending primarily on rhythm and on its archetypical representative, Archilochus, towards iambos as a genre defined mainly by invective as its dominant feature."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-379) and indexes.

Text in English; some Ancient Greek with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1, Greek iambos (7th-4th cent. BCE) : genre and corpus. Approaching genre ; The corpus of iambic poets; title: Pt. 2, Ways of seeing. Iambos in Aristotle's works ; Ancient theories of iambos; title: Pt. 3, Iambos and iambeion : a study of terms in context. Iambos in Archilochus (fr. 215W) ; Iambe and iambos ; Iambos and iambeion in the Classical period; title: Pt. 4, The performance of iambos. Musical performance of iamboi ; public performance of iamboi; title: Pt. 5, Perceptions of iambos. Archilochus as a prototype of invective poetry ; Invective as the dominant feature of iambos.