Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos. [From: Transactions of the American Philological Association 118, 1988].

Rosen, Ralph M.:

Published by Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988

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pp 29-41. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author. - Author's name underlined on cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: Students of the Greek iambos continue to dispute whether the poets targets of abuse were fictional or real characters. Most recently the Cologne Archilochos has challenged scholars to square the received biographical tradition about the poet with its new "evidence." Is the "I" of the poem Archilochos himself? Are the characters generic stock-figures, each bearing an appropriately significant name: Lycambes the "Wolf-walker," Neobule the woman "of New Plan," for example? Did the iambic poet wish to vent his private enmity against real figures, whether out of a desire for personal vengeance or for the purpose of exposing reprobates to the public? Or did his inspiration spring less from real life and more from a desire to demonstrate his skill in a literary tradition in which invective and obscenity were de rigueur? For that matter, could the poet pursue a middle course, enlisting real figures, but in entirely fictional situations? Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos. [From: Transactions of the American Philological Association 118, 1988].
• Publisher: Atlanta: Scholars Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• Binding: Reprint, stapled.
• Condition: Gut
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Klassische Philologie