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.
CONTENTS
Tradition and Contextualization
I. Praise
1 The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B)
2 Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13
II. Bacchylides Dithyrambs and the Kuklios Khoros
3 Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception
4 Contexts
5 Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens
Conclusion
Series | Oxford Classical Monographs |
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