The Idea of Iambos
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199286272
ISBN-13
9780199286270
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 17th, 2009
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
620 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece.
The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of ancient theories of genres and the way they affected ancient scholarship. Rotstein also examines the possibility of musical performance of iambic poetry as well as the various occasions of public performance, particularly at musical contests and rhapsodic recitals. Finally, she argues that, from the Archaic to the Classical period, there was a shift from the notion of literary class depending primarily on rhythm and on its archetypical representative, Archilochus, towards iambos as a genre defined mainly by invective as its dominant feature.
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