The Early Greek Poets and Their Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Greek Poets and Their Times write by Anthony J. Podlecki. This book was released on 2011-11-01. The Early Greek Poets and Their Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Instead of concentrating on the poetry as literature, Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B.C. in the context of the military and historical events of the period.
The First Poets
The First Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Poets write by Michael Schmidt. This book was released on 2005. The First Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Michael Schmidt' s last book, "Lives of the Poets," was published, Mark Strand called it " a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read." Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and e lan to "The" "First Poets"-- the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time. Poetry takes its bearings from the brilliant constellation of early and classical Greek poets, who have long been overshadowed by the great Greek dramatists. In The First Poets,"" Schmidt rescues the lives of these poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the " dirty old man of poetry"; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others. Combining the verifiable facts of their lives and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
Early Greek Poets' Lives
Early Greek Poets' Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Greek Poets' Lives write by Maarit Kivilo. This book was released on 2010. Early Greek Poets' Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece write by Bruno Gentili. This book was released on 1990-02. Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture write by Richard Hunter. This book was released on 2009-02-19. Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
