The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic PoetryThis text re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their primary narrators or main narrative voices - a central feature of their poetic manner - by exploiting and adapting models from a wide range of Archaic poets and genres, including Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, Sappho, Archaic iambos, and early elegy. It goes beyond previous work by bringing together a close study of the Hellenistic re-making of the poetic forms of the past with the first comprehensive examination of the primary narrators of the major poems and fragments of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry. Building on narratological approaches to literary texts, it explores the ways in which Archaic poets create their narrators and develop personas across their different works. It also shows that poets such as Pindar and Hesiod provided an invaluable narrative 'pattern-book' for Hellenistic poets to adapt and experiment with. |
Contents
Archaic narrative and narrators | 36 |
Callimachean narrators | 103 |
The narrators of Theocritus | 221 |
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Aetia Aetia prologue Alcaeus Alcman aoidos Apollonius apostrophe Archaic models Archaic poetry Archilochus Argonautica Argonauts Artemis Athena audience Bacchylides beginning break-off Bulloch Callimachean Callimachus Cameron Carey Carneia characterisation characters choral chorus context contrast D'Alessio Depew elegy emotional emphasises epic eromenos Erysichthon example Fantuzzi Fantuzzi-Hunter 2004 genres Goldhill Greek Haslam Hecale Hellenistic period Hellenistic poetry Hence Heracles Hesiod Hipponax historical author Homeric Hymns Homeric narrator Hunter Hutchinson 1988 Hymn to Apollo Iamb Iambi iambos Idyll 13 Idyll 22 important ironising Kerkhecker 1999 lyric mimetic moralising Muses myth narrative narrator and author narrator's parallel passages performance person Pindar Pindaric epinicians PMGF poems poet poetic Polydeuces primary narrator pseudo-spontaneity Pythian quasi-biography recalls relationship reperformance Sappho Simichidas sing song speaker Stesichorus suggests Teiresias Telchines tell texts Theocritus Theognis voice Zeus ἀλλ γὰρ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν καὶ μὲν μοι οὐ τὰ τε τὸ
References to this book
Talking Books : Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry: Readings ... G. O. Hutchinson No preview available - 2008 |