Hexametrical genres from homer to theocritus
Auteur :
Faraone, Christopher Athanasious
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780197552971
Date de publication :
5 janv. 2022
Dimensions :
24,6 x 16,5 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
567 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, incantations, and laments, and gains new insight into their ritual performance, their early history, and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems.