Challenging established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions ¿ placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ''Easter eggs'' of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such signposting is usually considered the preserve of later literary cultures, closely linked with the development of libraries, literacy and writing. But Thomas Nelson shows that these devices were already deeply ingrained in oral archaic Greek poetry, deconstructing the artificial boundary between a supposedly ''primal'' archaic literature and a supposedly ''sophisticated'' book culture of Hellenistic Alexandria and Rome. In three interlocking case studies, he highlights how poets from Homer to Pindar employed the language of hearsay, memory and time to index their allusive relationships, as they variously embraced, reworked and challenged their in
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<p><i>A History of the Archaic Greek World</i> offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE.</p><ul><li>Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections,...
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Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure...
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An introduction to the art of archaic and classical Greece. Looking at the social and cultural contexts in which the rich diversity of Greek arts were produced, Robin Osborne shows how artistic developments were both a product of, and contributed to,...
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