Aglaia
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Aglaia

The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna

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Aglaia

The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna

About this book

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and their art, the use of mythical paradigms, and the relation of the poems to their social context. A recurrent theme is the recognition of the fragility and brevity of mortal happiness and the consciousness of how the immortality conferred by poetry resists the ever-threatening presence of death and oblivion, fixing in permanent form the passing moments of joy and beauty. This is an essential book for students and scholars of ancient Greek poetry.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Editor’s Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Abbreviations and Selected Short Titles
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Poetry, Performance, and Society in Early Greek Literature
  12. 2 Sirius and the Pleiades in Alcman’s Louvre Partheneion
  13. 3 Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry
  14. 4 Beauty, Desire, and Absence: Helen in Sappho, Alcaeus, and Ibycus
  15. 5 The Gorgon and the Nightingale: The Voice of Female Lament and Pindar’s Twelfth Pythian Ode
  16. 6 Naming, Truth, and Creation in the Poetics of Pindar
  17. 7 Messages to the Underworld: An Aspect of Poetic Immortalization in Pindar
  18. 8 Pindar, Mimnermus, and the “Zeus-given Gleam”: The End of Pythian 8
  19. 9 Time and the Hero: The Myth of Nemean 1
  20. 10 Arrest and Movement: Pindar’s Fifth Nemean
  21. 11 Pindar’s Seventh Nemean
  22. 12 Myth, Cult, and Memory in Pindar’s Third and Fourth Isthmian Odes
  23. 13 Bacchylides Reconsidered: Epithets and the Dynamics of Lyric Narrative
  24. 14 Croesus on the Pyre: Herodotus and Bacchylides
  25. 15 The Myth of Bacchylides 17: Heroic Quest and Heroic Identity
  26. 16 Pebbles in Golden Urns: The Date and Style of Corinna
  27. Index Locorum
  28. General Index
  29. About the Author