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B. Acosta-Hughes, Arion's lyre: archaic lyric into Hellenistic poetry

B. Acosta-Hughes, Arion's lyre: archaic lyric into Hellenistic poetry

Publié le par Frédérique Fleck

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Arion's lyre: archaic lyric into Hellenistic poetry. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. xv, 252 p.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

Arion's Lyre examines howHellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformedArchaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, andcreative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho,Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, andread by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaicpoets often look very different in the new social, cultural, andpolitical setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, theAlexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but hasdistinct associations and contexts, from Ptolemaic politics andMacedonian queens to the new phenomenon of the poetry book and anAlexandrian scholarship intent on preservation and codification.

A study of Hellenistic poetic culture and an interpretation of some of the Archaic poets it so lovingly preserved, Arion's Lyreis also an examination of how one poetic culture reads another--and howmodern readings of ancient poetry are filtered and shaped by earlierreadings.

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. He is the author of Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition.

Table des matières:

Preface xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Preserving Her Aeolic Song: Traces of Alexandrian Sappho 12
Chapter 2: Lyric into Elegy: Sappho Again 62
Chapter 3: Alcaeus: Voice and Metaphor of the Symposium 105
Chapter 4: From Samos to Alexandria: Earlier Court Poets and Their Legacies 141
Chapter 5: Simonides Recalled: Imitations of a Poikilos Original 171
Epilogue: Lyric Transformed 214
References Cited 221
Index Locorum 239
Subject Index 247