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In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza as a basic unit of composition. He points out how knowledge of the elegiac stanza can give us insight into how these poets alternated between stanzas of exhortation and meditation, used co-ordinated pairs of stanzas to construct lengthy arguments about excellence or proper human government, and created generic set pieces that they could deploy in longer compositions. Faraone's close analysis of nearly all the important elegiac fragments will greatly enhance understanding and appreciation of this poetic genre.
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Christopher A. Faraone is The Springer Professor of Classics and the Humanities, University of Chicago.
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"[B]uilding on nineteenth-century scholarship, Faraone gives us a modern reading of these archaic poems. Anyone interested in archaic Greece on in poetic performance will this book with profit."--Anne Mahoney, The Classical Outlook
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0199236984
- ISBN 13 9780199236985
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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