Bacchylides
Bacchylides
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USDLike his contemporary Pindar, Baccylides (c. 520-450 BC) composed songs of praise for princes and victorious athletes and songs for choral performances at religious festivals. Although lost in Late Antiquity, many of them have been recovered from papyri found in Egypt. Their clear formal structure and vivid narrative make them more easily accessible than Pindar's verse and they are elegant specimens of the exclusive and sophisticated choral lyric poetry from the first half of fifth-century BC Greece. (This selection contains the first English commentary since 1905).
- First commentary in English since 1905
- Argues that Bacchylides' odes are masterpieces in their own right and specimens of the latest and most mature stage of Greek choral lyric poetry
- Offers a unique insight into the genre of dithyramb through the only completely preserved examples of the genre from the fifth century BC
Reviews & endorsements
'The introduction and notes treat fully, clearly and illuminatingly, and with immense learning, all that can be known of the poems' context in Greek life and literature … this book will be an indispensable boon.' The Journal of Classics Teaching
'Less specialist readers will be grateful to M. and to the Editors of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series for this new Bacchylides … presents a rich selection of Bacchylides' poems … an excellent introduction to Bacchylides poetry …' Journal of Hellenistic Studies
Product details
July 2004Paperback
9780521599771
292 pages
186 × 124 × 19 mm
0.311kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- BAKCHYLIDOU EPINIKOI
- BAKCHYLIDOU DITHYRAMBOI
- PAIANES
- PROSODIA
- ENKOMIA (?)
- Commentary.
