Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece
Edmunds, Lowell (editor); Wallace, Robert W. (editor)
ISBN 10: 0801855756 ISBN 13: 9780801855757
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., 1997
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Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art arising from specific social or political circumstances. Therefore, each interpretation must be in the context of its performance. The contributors to this study reconstruct the performance context of an array of works, including the epic, tragedy, lyric, elegy and proverbs. Each essay calls attention to the public and performed character and contexts of the variety of poems and speech acts discussed.
About the Author: Lowell Edmunds is professor of classics at Rutgers University. His many books include 'Approaches to Greek Myth', available from Johns Hopkins. Robert W. Wallace is associate professor of classics at Northwestern University. He is author of 'The Areopagos Council, to 307 B.C.', available from Johns Hopkins.
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Title: Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient ...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hard Cover
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