The Art Of Bacchylides

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 : Gordon Kirkwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrative Art of Bacchylides written by Gordon Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bacchylides Bacchylides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333776299
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by Bacchylides Bacchylides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments It is by considerations such as these that the scope of the present edition has been determined. I have endeavoured to combine criticism and interpretation with a treatment of the poems as literature; and thus to contribute, though it be only a little, towards obtaining for them that place in our Greek studies which they appear well fitted to hold. For such a purpose it was not enough to explain and illustrate the odes themselves; it was necessary also to aim at conveying some idea of the surroundings amidst which the poet worked, of his relation to contemporaries, and of his place in the historical development of the Greek lyric. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Poems written by Bacchylides and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard C Jebb
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789353891305
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by Richard C Jebb and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : David Fearn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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, USA. 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 : 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 : 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 : Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919955
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy written by Anne Pippin Burnett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. Offering fresh readings of Attic tragedy, Anne Pippin Burnett urges readers to peel away twentieth-century attitudes toward vengeance and reconsider the revenge tragedies of ancient Athens in their own context. After a consideration of how our view of Elizabethan drama has obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, Burnett reviews early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the Odyssey, Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Then, setting aside post-Platonic and Judeo-Christian notions of criminality, she provides new interpretations of all the Attic tragedies in which revenge is a central theme: Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, Sophocles' Ajax, Electra, and Tereus, and Euripides' Children of Heracles, Hecuba, Medea, Electra, and Orestes. Burnett shows that for the ancients, revenge meant a redress of imbalances in both human and divine worlds, achieved through human actions. The vengeful heroines thus appear in a new light. Electra, Hecuba, Medea, and others cease to be the picture of depravity in dramas that are grotesque and sensational, and are instead representative human figures who respond with grandeur to the outsize demands of necessity and supernatural powers.

Author : Bacchylides Bacchylides
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666874023
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacchylides written by Bacchylides Bacchylides and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bacchylides: A Prose Translation Bacchylides, who flourilhed between foo and b.c., was a native of Ceos, the modern Zea, as alfo was his maternal uncle Simonides. Both were rivals of Pindar, and were placed by ancient critics on a lift of the nine greatef'c mal'ters of lyric poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.