Greek Lyric

A Selection

Felix Budelmann editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th May '18

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Full and up-to-date commentary on a varied selection of poems from the attractive corpus of Greek lyric.

Provides a varied selection from the attractive corpus of Greek lyric, including well-known as well as some lesser studied poems. The original Greek text is accompanied by a commentary and a detailed introduction. The volume will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars.The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina convivalia and passages from Timotheus' Persians. Both longer and shorter pieces are included. The introduction discusses major issues in the study of Greek lyric including genre, performance and transmission. The commentary is literary in emphasis but also treats questions of syntax, textual reconstruction, metre and dialect. The volume will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars.

'… a remarkable feat of clarity and compression, … exactly what you would want to put into the hands of a student completely new to the subject.' Classics For All

ISBN: 9780521633093

Dimensions: 223mm x 143mm x 23mm

Weight: 520g

338 pages