The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

By: Goldhill, Simon

How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, this landmark volume discusses key aspects of the history of poetics: tale-telling and the representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009478249
• ISBN13: 9781009478243
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"