Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

by David Fearn

Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199215502
• ISBN13: 9780199215508
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"