The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation: From Homer to the Hellenistic Age

by Francis Cairns

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by celebrated Greek poets ― Homer, Sappho, Alcaeus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius, among others. Analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111481069
• ISBN13: 9783111481067
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"