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Author Faraone, Christopher A.

Title The stanzaic architecture of early Greek elegy / Christopher A. Faraone
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Internal Structure -- Composition -- Performance -- Improvisation -- Innovation and Archaism -- Revival -- Conclusions
Summary A study of poetic form in early Greek elegy. Christopher A. Faraone draws on analogies from Italian and English song and poetry of the Renaissance. All Greek is translated and all technical terms explained. - ;In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza as a basic unit of composition. He points out how
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and indexes
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Subject Elegiac poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Elegiac poetry, Greek
Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007049194
ISBN 0199236984
9780199236985
0191553182
9780191553189
1281515205
9781281515209
9786611515201
6611515208