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Wilson, EdmundBiblio.com

Litterary Essays and Reviews 1930s and 40s

Acosta-Hughes, BenjaminBiblio.com

POLYEIDEIA; The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition

200236593University of California Press. 2002. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Very Light shelfwear to book and DJ.; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 1.42 x 8.98 x 6.06 Inches; 348 pages; This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B. C. E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English along with line-by-line commentary notes and literary analysis. The structure of the book is thematic with chapters focusing on such topics as poetic voice fable ethical criticism and statuary. Each chapter consists of an introduction text and selected critical apparatus translation and comprehensive thematic discussion. Acosta-Hughes focuses especially on Callimachus' manipulation of traditional features of archaic iambic poetry such as persona loquens ethical and critical message and eristic dialogue. He also includes a detailed analysis of the Alexandrian poet's artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and Hipponax. Polyeideia will interest not only readers of Greek and Hellenistic poetry but also readers of Roman satire and invective verse as well as those intrigued by the processes of memorializing and fashioning poetic culture. . 0520220609 . University of California Press hardcover

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Scodel, RuthBiblio.com

LISTENING TO HOMER; Tradition Narrative and Audience

200227625University of Michigan Press. 2002. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar.; The Homeric poems were not intended for readers but for a listening audience. Traditional in their basic elements the stories were learned by oral poets from earlier poets and recreated at every performance. Individual nuances tailored to the audience could creep into the stories of the Greek heroes on each and every occasion when a bard recited the epics. For a particular audience at a particular moment "tradition" is what it believes it has inherited from the past--and it may not be particularly old. The boundaries between the traditional and the innovative may become blurry and indistinct. By rethinking tradition we can see Homer's methods and concerns in a new light. The Homeric poet is not naive. He must convince his audience that the story is true. He must therefore seem disinterested unconcerned with promoting anyone's interests. The poet speaks as if everything he says is merely the repetition of old tales. Yet he carefully ensures that even someone who knows only a minimal amount about the ancient heroes can follow and enjoy the performance while someone who knows many stories will not remember inappropriate ones. Pretending that every detail is already familiar the poet heightens suspense and implies that ordinary people are the real judges of great heroes. Listening to Homer transcends present controversies about Homeric tradition and invention by rethinking how tradition functions. Focusing on reception rather than on composition Ruth Scodel argues that an audience would only rarely succeed in identifying narrative innovation. Homeric narrative relies on a traditionalizing inclusive rhetoric that denies the innovation of the oral performance while providing enough information to make the epics intelligible to audiences for whom much of the material is new. Listening to Homer will be of interest to general classicists as well as to those specializing in Greek epic and narrative performance. Its wide breadth and scope will also appeal to those non-classicists interested in the nature of oral performance.; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches; 248 pages . 0472112651 . University of Michigan Press hardcover

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