Del i serien Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Iambic Ideas

Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvAlberto Cavarzere,Antonio Aloni,Alessandro Barchiesi

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Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the "iambic" as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings—Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the "iambic idea" is impossible to define in absolute terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the "iambic tendency" in Sappho, the "reusing of iambi" for Roman epodes, and even the instances of "iambic absence" in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the "iambic" is its own inherent variability.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-11-16
Mått150 x 228 x 20 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGreek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor278
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742508170

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Chapter 1 Early Greek Iambic Poetry: The Importance of NarrativeChapter 2 What Is That Man Doing in SapphoChapter 3 Iambic Motifs in Alcaeus' LyricsChapter 4 Iambic Patterns in Aristophanic ComedyChapter 5 Callimachus 4: From Performance to WritingChapter 6 Iambic Presences in Ennius's SaturaeChapter 7 Catullian iambics, Catullian iambiChapter 8 Horace and Iambos: The Poet as Literary HistorianChapter 9 Some Generic Problems in Horace's Epodes: or On (Not) Being ArchilochusChapter 10 Epode 14: Horace's carmen inconditum?Chapter 11 Ego polivi versibus senariis: Phaedrus and Iambic PoetryChapter 12 Late Antique Iambics and iambikè idéa

With its judicious sampling of topics, each developed in impressive detail, Iambic Ideas itself rates as a perfectly brilliant idea. The book provides a much-needed sense of 'iambic' as a self-standing generic enterprise within the literatures of Greece and Rome, poetry that both writes and plays by its own rules. The book is thus a first of its kind, and fundamental to the study of verse invective in antiquity.