Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation

by Elizabeth Irwin

Book Overview

Examining the interaction between poetics and politics in ancient Greece's archaic period, in relationship to the work of Solon, this volume argues that, in general, the political expressions of martial exhortation elegy were aristocratic in nature and that the symposiasts attempted to assert a heroic identity on the wider polis community. The study demonstrates how Solon's poetry subverts this practice, using the poetic traditions of epic and Hesiod...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521851785
• ISBN13: 9780521851787
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"