Bacchylides

Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921550-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 751 g

Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fearn, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Alte Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Tradition and Contextualization

- I. Praise

- 1: The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B)

- 2: Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13

- II. Bacchylides Dithyrambs and the Kuklios Khoros

- 3: Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception

- 4: Contexts

- 5: Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

David Fearn is P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.