Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics

by Claude Calame

Book Overview

Exploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres, Claude Calame, an internationally known classicist, draws the lineaments of a real history of the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional authorship. In this collection of essays, he shows that they made of their poems, through various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438926
• ISBN13: 9780801438929
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher