The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14536-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 265, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This volume makes clear that even within the short period of their floruit archaic Greek trimeters underwent profound changes. The shift in thematography, use of person, and vocabulary reveals that iambic verse is a complex, definable genre with all the dynamism that implies and with a traceable development.
The various chapters examine the subject matter, morphology, and diction of the trimeters both within the genre in a diachronic fashion and in relation to elegy. The metrical inscriptions and later iambic poetry are also considered, as the author ponders the rise of tragedy and the disappearance of serious iambus.
This work is of interest not only to scholars of archaic lyric poetry but also of tragedy and sympotic practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kantzios, Ippokratis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Ippokratis Kantzios, Ph.D. (1996) in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, is an Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of South Florida. He has published primarily on early Greek poetry, but also on Aeschylus and Theocritus.