Author: Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674046665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.
The Art of Bacchylides
Author: Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674046665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674046665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.
Bacchylides
Author: David Fearn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199215502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199215502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.
Bacchylides
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).
Epinicians
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519545718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519545718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.
Bacchylides
Author: Richard C Jebb
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353891305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353891305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides
Author: Bacchylides
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234473
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Until a century ago, the fifth-century Greek poet Bacchylides was known only by 107 nonsequential lines buried as quotations in the writings of other ancient authors. With the discovery in 1896 of a papyrus containing his work, 1,382 lines were reassembled and the poems of Bacchylides finally began to take shape for the modern reader. Slavitt argues in the Introduction to this collection that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet who warrants consideration. "He deserves attention not because he is beetling, like Pindar, but because he is not. He relies on craftsmanship and reliably displays an attractive grace and elegance."
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234473
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Until a century ago, the fifth-century Greek poet Bacchylides was known only by 107 nonsequential lines buried as quotations in the writings of other ancient authors. With the discovery in 1896 of a papyrus containing his work, 1,382 lines were reassembled and the poems of Bacchylides finally began to take shape for the modern reader. Slavitt argues in the Introduction to this collection that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet who warrants consideration. "He deserves attention not because he is beetling, like Pindar, but because he is not. He relies on craftsmanship and reliably displays an attractive grace and elegance."
One Hundred Years of Bacchylides
Author: S. R. Slings
Publisher: Vu University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher: Vu University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Greek Lyric Poetry
Author: M. L. West
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019954039X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019954039X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.
Hieron and Bacchylides: Literary Studies of Odes 3, 4, 5, and Fragment 20C.
Author: Patrick Thomas Brannan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Greek Lyric
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848592
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms represented in the selections. Headnotes to each section highlight the background of the poet whose works follows. Complete with a glossary of names and a select bibliography.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848592
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms represented in the selections. Headnotes to each section highlight the background of the poet whose works follows. Complete with a glossary of names and a select bibliography.