Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
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Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

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Felix Budelmann (Contributor)  

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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.
Felix Budelmann is University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009).
  • Contributor: Felix Budelmann
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780521633871
  • Number of Pages: 338
  • Packaged Dimensions: 137x216x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 430
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2018-05-24
  • Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Felix Budelmann is University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009).

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