Lesbos' other lyricist: studies in Alcaeus
<p>‘Lesbos’ Other Lyricist: Studies in Alcaeus’ argues that Alcaeus is a sophisticated poet. It offers new approaches to and interpretations of his poetry, and provides a re-edition and close reading of Alcaeus frr. 33-57, 59-111.</p> <p>Part I suggests new approaches to Alcaeus a...
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| description | <p>‘Lesbos’ Other Lyricist: Studies in Alcaeus’ argues that Alcaeus is a sophisticated poet. It offers new approaches to and interpretations of his poetry, and provides a re-edition and close reading of Alcaeus frr. 33-57, 59-111.</p>
<p>Part I suggests new approaches to Alcaeus and Greek lyric that emphasise literary interpretation. In contrast to the dominant approaches that treat Alcaeus as a source of historical data or consider his works largely understandable from the context, this study highlights the interpretative benefits of a more varied approach. It therefore goes further than recent works on the literary aspects of Greek lyric by focusing on a single poet and his oeuvre in a thesis-length study, uniting diverse approaches, and asking new questions of old topics. New approaches to the study of epithets, metre, immersion, performance, and history are explored for literary interpretation.</p>
<p>Part II presents a new text, apparatus, and textual and interpretative essays on P.Oxy.1233 and 1234 with their joined fragments (Alcaeus frr. 33-57, 59-111). Focusing on these papyri, which represent a large portion of Alcaeus’ poetic fragments and include a broad range of his poetry, forces confrontation with a mixture of famous and under-studied fragments and enables detailed study of the fragments alongside the methodologies of the first half.</p>
<p>As the first thesis-length study of Alcaeus’ entire corpus for forty years, this project presents a more nuanced view of Alcaeus, provides fresh interpretations of fragments, and suggests new approaches for Alcaeus and Greek lyric more broadly.</p> |
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