The stanzaic architecture of early Greek elegy /
A study of poetic form in early Greek elegy. Christopher A. Faraone draws on analogies from Italian and English song and poetry of the Renaissance. All Greek is translated and all technical terms explained. - ;In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against t...
| Основен автор: | Faraone, Christopher A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=242313 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Stanzaic architecture of early Greek elegy. |
| Резюме: |
A study of poetic form in early Greek elegy. Christopher A. Faraone draws on analogies from Italian and English song and poetry of the Renaissance. All Greek is translated and all technical terms explained. - ;In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza as a basic unit of composition. He points out how. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
0199236984 9780199236985 0191553182 9780191553189 |