Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and CorinnaSummary Of The Book: 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 recurrent theme is the recognition of the fragility and brevity of mortal happiness and the consciousness of how the immortality conferred by poetry resists the ever-threatening presence of death and oblivion, fixing in permanent form the passing moments of joy and beauty. This is an essential book for students and scholars of ancient Greek poetry. |
Contents
Poetry Performance and Society in Early Greek Literature | 9 |
Sirius and the Pleiades in Alcmans Louvre Partheneion | 25 |
Sappho and Oral Poetry | 43 |
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Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna Charles Segal Limited preview - 1998 |
Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna Charles Segal Limited preview - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
Aeacids Aeacus Aegina Aeschylus Agido Ajax Alcaeus Alcman Alcman's Partheneion Anactoria Aphrodite Apollo archaic association Athena Bacchylides beauty birth Bowra celebration Chapter chorus context contrast Corinna Croesus cult darkness death deeds Detienne divine earth echo Eleithyia epic epithets especially fame Farnell father female festival frag Fränkel Gentili gift gnomic goddess gods Gorgon Greek Hades Hagesichora Helen Hera Heracles Hermes hero Herodotus heroic Hesiod Homeric human Iliad imagery immortal interpretation Isthmian light lines Lyre lyric Méautis Medusa metaphor Mimnermus Minos Moirai mortal motif movement Muses myth mythical narrative Nemean Neoptolemus ode's Odysseus Olympian Olympus oral parallel passage Peleus Phocus Pindar Pleiades poem poet poet's poetic poetry Poseidon praise proem Puelma pyre Pythian radiance realm ritual Sappho sexual Sogenes song strophe suggests theme Theogony Theseus Thummer tradition verb victory Wilamowitz words Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε