Author: Anacreon of Teos
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 180170161X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 681
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Revered in the canon of Nine Lyric Poets, Anacreon flourished in the sixth century BC. His widespread popularity over the classical world went on to inspire countless imitators. His writings influenced fifth century Athenian drama, while tragedy adopted his metres and comic playwrights, including Aristophanes, made allusions to his verses. He was also admired by the Latin poets Ovid, Propertius and Horace, who frequently alludes to his work. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This eBook presents Anacreon’s fragments, with illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Anacreon's life and works * Features the complete fragments of Anacreon, preserved in the writings of other ancient authors, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introduction to the fragments * Includes J. M. Edmonds’s translation of the fragments, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition * Also features multiple translations of the ‘Anacreontea’ — a Hellenic collection of odes inspired by Anacreon’s poetry and traditionally ascribed to the poet * The Romantic poet Thomas Moore’s celebrated 1800 translation * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the fragments you want to read with individual contents tables * Features a bonus biography — discover Anacreon's ancient world * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Translations Fragments of Anacreon (1924) Anacreontea (Moore translation, 1800) Anacreontea (Bourne translation, 1844) Anacreontea (Edmonds translation, 1931) The Greek Texts List of Greek Texts The Biography Life of Anacreon (1924) by J. M. Edmonds Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set
Author: Anacreon
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108009875
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The second volume of Jebb's edition of the fragments of Sophocles, completed after his death by Headlam and Pearson and published in 1917, contains the text of the fragments from 'Ion' to Chryses', presented in Greek alphabetical order, together with a commentary.
Author: Sophocles
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Category : Greek drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Love poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Hans Bernsdorff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198860488
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Anacreon is one of the most important of the Greek archaic lyric poets and has enjoyed a rich reception in both ancient and modern Europe, from Horace in Rome to the so-called Anacreontic poets in modern Europe (among them Abraham Cowley and Robert Herrick in England, and the young Goethe in Germany). However, despite his importance within the classical canon, there has been no full-scale commentary on the fragments of Anacreon in recent decades (with the exception of a single commentary in modern Greek). The two volumes seek to address this gap in scholarship by providing a detailed and up-to-date commentary on all the known fragments of Anacreon alongside a freshly edited text, critical apparatus, and a new translation. The commentary to reconstruct the context of the fragments, shedding light on Anacreon's relation to earlier poets and discussing a variety of aspects of his work, including language, style, narratological analysis, intertextuality, and performance. Close attention has been paid to Anacreon's elaborate poetic language and use of imagery, especially in the representation of paradoxical emotions: the analysis systematically applies the refined tools developed in recent studies on the language of archaic poetry in order to describe and explain these phenomena, while recent findings in the history of religion and classical archaeology have been brought to bear on his representation of the gods. Fresh interpretation of the papyrus fragments has been particularly fruitful as new material has come to light and fundamentally changed our perception of Anacreon: these show that besides familiar topics such as love, the symposium, and observations of everyday life, more unexpected themes such as the Demeter-cult numbered among his concerns and played a significant role in his poetry.
Author: Veronika Lütkenhaus
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647311510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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This book explores, for the first time, the influence of Anacreon and the Anacreontic tradition on Horace's Odes and Epodes. It focuses first on the original fragments of Anacreon and their reception in Horace, paying attention to the central themes of wine, love, and satire. In a second part, the possibility of conscious Horatian reception of the earliest Carmina Anacreontea (and the broader Anacreontic tradition) as distinct from the original is discussed and shown to be highly probable. This imitation of imitation can be labelled, in Gérard Genette's words, as "literature in the third degree". As a significant predecessor of Horace, Anacreon can be described as no less than the central pivot between Archilochus and Hipponax, on the one hand, and Alcaeus and Sappho, on the other. He represents the tie between Horace's iambic and lyric personae and is thus a much more encompassing predecessor than any one of the other four above-mentioned counterparts.
Author: Lewis Wilhelm Brüggemann
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Author: Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Manuel Baumbach
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311037076X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist Anacreon, they are now regarded instead as imitations of Anacreontic lyricism. This volume presents the latest findings on the language, poetology, tradition, and reception of this lyrical collection.
