Aglaia
The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna
Charles Segal
ISBN: | 9780847686179 |
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Published: | 28 December, 1998 |
Format: | Paperback |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Aglaia
The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna
Charles Segal
In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and their art, the use of mythical paradigms, and the relation of the poems to their social context. A re
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