The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric -

Felix Budelmann

Cambridge University Press

2009

463 páginas

15h 26m

ISBN-13: 9780521849449

Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to
iambos and dithyramb to epinikion. It particularly flourished in the archaic and
classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had
significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day.
This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and
diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes account of the exciting
new papyrus finds and new critical approaches which have greatly advanced our
understanding of both the corpus itself and of the socio-cultural contexts in which
lyric pieces were produced, performed and transmitted. Each chapter is provided
with a guide to further reading, and the volume includes a chronology, glossary
and guide to editions and translations.