Greek Studies

Interdisciplinary Approaches

By: Charles Segal

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Paperback | 28 November 1997

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In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry - in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and their art, the use of mythical paradigms, and the relation of the poems to their social context. A recurrent theme is the recognition of the fragility and brevity of mortal happiness and the consciousness of how the immortality conferred by poetry resists the ever-threatening presence of death and oblivion, fixing in permanent form the passing moments of joy and beauty. This is an essential book for students and scholars of ancient Greek poetry.

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These four chapters, together with Chaper 6, offer a compelling vision of the structure of the Pindaric ode, firmly rooted in American New Criticism, as well as excellent readings of the individual odes. These essays will continue to be of use for scholars with like or different concerns, both as a record of an influential strand of Pindaric scholarship ( in particular) and as fine examples of the close reading of highly wrought works. As with all books in this Rowman and Littlefield series, the collection is very reasonably priced, and this will ensure the continued dissemination of these essays.--Nigel Nicholson, Classic Reed College, Portland Oregon "Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Vol. 9, No. 8, 1998 "

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Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations and Selected Short Titles	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Poetry, Performance, and Society in Early Greek Literature	p. 9
Sirius and the Pleiades in Alcman's Louvre Partheneion	p. 25
Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry	p. 43
Beauty, Desire, and Absence: Helen in Sappho, Alcaeus, and Ibycus	p. 63
The Gorgon and the Nightingale: The Voice of Female Lament and Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode	p. 85
Naming, Truth, and Creation in the Poetics of Pindar	p. 105
Messages to the Underworld: An Aspect of Poetic Immortalization in Pindar	p. 133
Pindar, Mimnermus, and the "Zeus-given Gleam": The End of Pythian 8	p. 149
Time and the Hero: The Myth of Nemean 1	p. 155
Arrest and Movement: Pindar's Fifth Nemean	p. 167
Pindar's Seventh Nemean	p. 185
Myth, Cult, and Memory in Pindar's Third and Fourth Isthmian Odes	p. 229
Bacchylides Reconsidered: Epithets and the Dynamics of Lyric Narrative	p. 251
Croesus on the Pyre: Herodotus and Bacchylides	p. 281
The Myth of Bacchylides 17: Heroic Quest and Heroic Identity	p. 295
Pebbles in Golden Urns: The Date and Style of Corinna	p. 315
Index Locorum	p. 327
General Index	p. 331
About the Author	p. 339
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