The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

By: Beissinger, Mark R.

Book Overview

Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception. It takes account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521614767
• ISBN13: 9780521614764
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"