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Examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. This book looks at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets.

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"[T]his is a very important contribution to both Hellenistic poetry and archaic lyric. It offers copious material for further discussion on textual problems and interpretative approaches."--Flora P. Manakidou, European Legacy

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Preface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Preserving Her Aeolic Song: Traces of Alexandrian Sappho 12 Chapter 2: Lyric into Elegy: Sappho Again 62 Chapter 3: Alcaeus: Voice and Metaphor of the Symposium 105 Chapter 4: From Samos to Alexandria: Earlier Court Poets and Their Legacies 141 Chapter 5: Simonides Recalled: Imitations of a Poikilos Original 171 Epilogue: Lyric Transformed 214 References Cited 221 Index Locorum 239 Subject Index 247

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 2 May 2010
      ISBN-13 9780691095257
      978-0691095257
      ISBN-10 0691095256
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. This book looks at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets.

      Trade Review
      "[T]his is a very important contribution to both Hellenistic poetry and archaic lyric. It offers copious material for further discussion on textual problems and interpretative approaches."--Flora P. Manakidou, European Legacy

      Table of Contents
      Preface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Preserving Her Aeolic Song: Traces of Alexandrian Sappho 12 Chapter 2: Lyric into Elegy: Sappho Again 62 Chapter 3: Alcaeus: Voice and Metaphor of the Symposium 105 Chapter 4: From Samos to Alexandria: Earlier Court Poets and Their Legacies 141 Chapter 5: Simonides Recalled: Imitations of a Poikilos Original 171 Epilogue: Lyric Transformed 214 References Cited 221 Index Locorum 239 Subject Index 247

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