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Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus
- Title
- Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus / Christopher Athanasious Faraone.
- Author
- Faraone, Christopher A.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-1325 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 266 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book focuses on the evidence for short, non-epic hexametrical genres as a way of gaining new insights into the variety of their often ritual performance, their early history and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems, by playing with and sometimes overturning the generic expectations of their audiences or readers. In doing so it combines literary and ritual studies to produce a rich and detailed picture of a number of genres performed in temples, such as hymns and laments for Adonis, or in other spaces likewise dedicated to traditional speech-acts, such as epithalamia, oracles or incantations. It deals primarily with the recovery of a number of lost or under-appreciated hexametrical genres, which are usually left out of modern taxonomies of archaic hexametrical poetry, either because they survive only in fragments or because the earliest evidence for them dates to the classical period and beyond. Of central importance will be the surviving hexametrical poets, especially those of archaic and Hellenistic date, who embed or imitate traditional hexametrical genres of shorter duration either to give a recognizable internal structure to a shorter poem or to an episode or speech within a longer one"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1325
- ISBN
- 9780197552971
- 0197552978
- LCCN
- 2020043988
- 17135384
- OCLC
- 1198088072
- Author
- Faraone, Christopher A., author.
- Title
- Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus / Christopher Athanasious Faraone.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and indexes.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 17135384
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1325