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Iambic Ideas

Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire
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This text explores the concept of the "iambic" as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of the iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antiquity. What emerges is that the iambic idea is impossible to define in absolute terms; rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to different historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the "iambic tendency" in Sappho, the "re-using of iambi" for Roman epodes, and even the instances of "iambic absence" in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the iambic is its own inherent variability.

Author Biography:

Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Verona, Italy. Antonio Aloni is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Torino, Italy. Alberto Cavarzere is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Trento, Italy.
Release date Australia
November 16th, 2001
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Contributions by Alessandro Russo
  • Contributions by Angela M. Andrisano
  • Contributions by Ewen Lyall Bowie
  • Contributions by Gianfranco Agosti
  • Contributions by Lowell Edmunds
  • Contributions by Stephen J. Harrison
  • Contributions by Stephen J. Heyworth
  • Edited by Alberto Cavarzere
  • Edited by Alessandro Barchiesi
  • Edited by Antonio Aloni
Pages
278
Dimensions
150x228x20
ISBN-13
9780742508170
Product ID
7575151

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