The idea of iambos /
This study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry, from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies, 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 w...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry, from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies, 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. It 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. The author 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-379) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191558177 0191558176 9780191713330 0191713333 0191608718 9780191608711 1282383906 9781282383906 9786612383908 6612383909 |