Title Orpheus : the myth of the poet / Charles Segal

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989] ©1989

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Description xviii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents The magic of Orpheus and the ambiguities of language -- Orpheus and the fourth Georgic: Virgil on nature and civilization -- Ovid's Orpheus and Augustan ideology -- Virgil and Ovid on Orpheus: a second look -- Dissonant sympathy: song, Orpheus, and the golden age in Seneca's tragedies -- Orpheus in Rilke: the hidden roots of being -- Orpheus from antiquity to today: retrospect and prospect Analysis Poetry in Greek to 500 Orphic poetry Poetry in Greek, to 500. Orphic poetry - Critical studies Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 221-225 Subject Orpheus (Greek mythological character) -- In literature Classical literature -- History and criticism. Classicism. Literature, Modern -- Classical influences. Poets in literature. LC no. 88045411 ISBN 0801837081 (alk. paper)

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