Bacchylides

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300075526
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Poems written by Bacchylides and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles. " Fagles] has produced a work which is at once a faithful translation of Bacchylides in the fullest sense and something which stands and lives in its own right as a work of art."--Sir Maurice Bowra, from the Foreword "Fagles has created . . . a musical and craftsmanly series of verses. As a translator, Fagles has the merits of . . . keeping the lilting rhythms of Bacchylides alive in one's ear . . . and unearthing metaphors behind faded Greek words, of splitting the strings of compound adjectives into pungent clauses which lose nothing in color but make coordinated English."--Emily Vermeule, American Journal of Philology "The beauty, richness, and classic quality of Mr. Fagles's unrhymed verse make this translation a creative work and a valuable contribution to English letters."--Rae Dalven, Poetry

Author : Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674046665
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Bacchylides written by Anne Pippin Burnett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic materials.

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599771
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by Bacchylides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).

Author : David Fearn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526967
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by David Fearn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros ('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by Bacchylides and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519545718
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epinicians written by Bacchylides and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.

Author : David Fearn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199215502
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by David Fearn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.

Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521210423
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-05-09 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.

Author : S. R. Slings
Publisher : Vu University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Bacchylides written by S. R. Slings and published by Vu University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Thomas Brannan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieron and Bacchylides: Literary Studies of Odes 3, 4, 5, and Fragment 20C. written by Patrick Thomas Brannan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: