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Wandering poets and other essays on late Greek literature and philosophy
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ISBN: 9780190268954 0190268964 0190268956 9780190268947 0190268948 0190493607 9780190493608 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new material has been added to the account of the'Wandering Poets'from early Byzantine Egypt, and earlier judgment on their paganism is nuanced. The story of Cyrus of Panopolis and the empress Eudocia takes into account important recent work on the poetry of Eudocia. Several chapters discuss the date and identity of the influential poet Nonnus. The longest chapter reviews the celebrated story of the so-called closing of the Academy of Athens and the trip of its seven remaining philosophers to the court of the Persian king Chosroes, rejecting the fashionable current idea that they set up a new school at Harran on the Persian border. An entirely new chapter discusses a recently published papyrus containing poems of the Alexandrian epigrammatist Palladas, rejecting the editor's claim that Palladas wrote almost a century earlier than hitherto believed. A concluding chapter, never before published, reinvestigates the evidence for paganism in sixth-century Byzantium. Boldly and persuasively argued, and drawing on a profound knowledge of the period, the volume as a whole deepens our knowledge of the rich intellectual traditions of the late antique Hellenic world.


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Die Poesie der Metonymie : Theorie, Ästhetik und Übersetzung einer vergessenen Trope
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ISBN: 9783825363307 3825363309 Year: 2016 Volume: 144 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH


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The look of lyric : Greek song and the visual studies in archaic and classical Greek song
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ISBN: 9004314849 9004311637 9789004311633 9789004314849 Year: 2016 Volume: 391 Publisher: Brill

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The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also their understanding in modern scholarship. By focusing on the relationship between the visual and the verbal as well as the sensory and the mental, this volume raises a wide range of questions concerning human perception and cultural practices. As this collection of essays shows, Greek lyric poetry played a decisive role in the shaping of both.


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The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity
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ISBN: 9781107118256 1107118255 9781316339398 9781107543393 1107543398 1316455734 1316455254 1316457656 1316456218 131645861X 1316339394 1316452379 9781316458617 9781316457658 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.

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