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This volume makes clear that even within the short period of their floruit archaic Greek trimeters underwent profound changes. The shift in thematography, use of person, and vocabulary reveals that iambic verse is a complex, definable genre with all the dynamism that implies and with a traceable development.
The various chapters examine the subject matter, morphology, and diction of the trimeters both within the genre in a diachronic fashion and in relation to elegy. The metrical inscriptions and later iambic poetry are also considered, as the author ponders the rise of tragedy and the disappearance of serious iambus.
This work is of interest not only to scholars of archaic lyric poetry but also of tragedy and sympotic practices.
The various chapters examine the subject matter, morphology, and diction of the trimeters both within the genre in a diachronic fashion and in relation to elegy. The metrical inscriptions and later iambic poetry are also considered, as the author ponders the rise of tragedy and the disappearance of serious iambus.
This work is of interest not only to scholars of archaic lyric poetry but also of tragedy and sympotic practices.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Publication Date:
24 May 2005
ISBN: 9789004145368
Format: Hardcover
'K's research is a very accurate and valuable investigation and collection of data -- which remains available for further assessment and application -- to be read by every scholar interested in the history of poetic forms.'
Liana Lomiento, BCMR, 2006
Liana Lomiento, BCMR, 2006
Ippokratis Kantzios, Ph.D. (1996) in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, is an Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of South Florida. He has published primarily on early Greek poetry, but also on Aeschylus and Theocritus.