The Early Greek Poets and Their Times

By Anthony J. Podlecki
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Language & Translation Studies, Poetry
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774845045, 296 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857628, 296 pages, January 1984
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Table of contents

Map

Preface

1. Early Greek Hexameter Poetry: Homer, Hesiod, and the
"Homeric Hymns"

2. Archilochus, Callinus, and Mimnermus

3. Alcaeus and Sappho

4. Terpander, Tyrtaeus, and Alcman

5. Solon and Theognis

6. Poetry in the West: Stesichorus, Ibycus, and Xenophanes

7. Anacreon and Simonides

8. Pindar and Bacchylides

9. Conclusion

Further Reading

Index

Description

This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric
poets. Instead of concentrating on the poetry as literature, Podlecki
has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the
eighth to fifth century B.C. in the context of the military and
historical events of the period.