By Andrew L. Ford
Aristotle's literary antecedents are studied with an exceptional fullness that considers the whole diversity of Greek poetic types, together with poems via Sappho, Pindar, and Sophocles, and prose texts besides. except its curiosity as a posh and sophisticated poem, the tune for Hermias is noteworthy as one of many first Greek lyrics for which we now have enormous and early facts for the way and the place it used to be composed, played, and bought. It hence presents a chance to reconstruct how Greek lyric texts functioned as functionality items and the way they circulated and have been preserved. The ebook argues that Greek lyric poems make the most of being learn as scripts for performances that either formed and have been formed via the social events during which they have been played. the result's an intensive and wide-ranging learn of a fancy and engaging literary rfile that offers a fuller view of literature within the past due classical age.
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Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Andrew L. Ford