Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Ewen Bowie
In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.
'Bowie's work has played a crucial role in keeping classics in Britain a flourishing enterprise by showing what significant new work can be done by looking at evidence others pass over … Any reader will be dazzled by Bowie's technical mastery' Ben Cartlidge, Times Literary Supplement
EWEN BOWIE is the Emeritus E. P. Warren Praelector and Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. He writes on early Greek poetry; Old Comedy; Hellenistic poetry; and the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. He co-edited volumes on Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009) and Archaic and Classical Choral Song (2011), edited one on Herodotus (2018), and published a commentary on Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (Cambridge, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107058088 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107058082 |
| Title | Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture |
| Author | Ewen Bowie |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2021-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 650 |
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