Preserving her Aeolic song : traces of Alexandrian Sappho -- Lyric into elegy : Sappho again -- Alcaeus : voice and metaphor of the symposium -- From Samos to Alexandria : earlier court poets and their legacies -- Simonides recalled : imitations of a poikilos original -- Lyric transformed.
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Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaic poets often look very different in the new social, cultural, and political setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, the Alexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but has distinct associations and contex.
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JSTOR
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MIL
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22573/cttvb40
Stock Number
253158
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Title
Arion's lyre.
International Standard Book Number
9780691095257
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greek poetry-- History and criticism.
Greek poetry, Hellenistic-- Egypt-- Alexandria-- History and criticism.