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Wedding, gender, and performance in ancient Greece /

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This book reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition has shaped some of the great surviving literature, most notably epic and lyric poetry. By recovering a lost genre, we can detect important voices from the ancient Greek world, and see the...

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Main Author: Karanika, Andromache, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Epithalamia > Greece > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Religious poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Weddings in literature.
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Summary:This book reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition has shaped some of the great surviving literature, most notably epic and lyric poetry. By recovering a lost genre, we can detect important voices from the ancient Greek world, and see the nuances with which different poets used it.
Physical Description:xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:0198884575
9780198884576