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

by Simon Goldhill

Book Overview

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"