Poems without Poets

preview-18
  • Poems without Poets Book Detail

  • Author : Boris Kayachev
  • Release Date : 2021-03-31
  • Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 241
  • ISBN 13 : 1913701417
  • File Size : 99,99 MB

Poems without Poets by Boris Kayachev PDF Summary

Book Description: The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the center, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context. The essays collected in this volume attempt, each in its own way, to disentangle the bundles of historically accreted uncertainties and misconceptions that affect individual anonymous texts, including pseudepigrapha ascribed to Homer, Manetho, Virgil, and Tibullus, literary and inscribed epigrams, and unattributed fragments. Poems without Poets will be of interest to students and scholars working on any anonymous ancient texts, but also to readers seeking an introduction to classical poetry beyond the limits of the established canon.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Poems without Poets books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Poems without Poets

Poems without Poets

File Size : 85,85 MB
Total View : 2310 Views
DOWNLOAD

The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the center, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascr

Ancient Greek Comedy

Ancient Greek Comedy

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 6521 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic exp

Pseudo-Euripides,

Pseudo-Euripides, "Rhesus"

File Size : 74,74 MB
Total View : 233 Views
DOWNLOAD

The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer’s Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the

Pindar’s ›First Pythian Ode‹

Pindar’s ›First Pythian Ode‹

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 5923 Views
DOWNLOAD

This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar’s First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic char

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise

File Size : 69,69 MB
Total View : 1830 Views
DOWNLOAD

The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing