This module is also available to undergraduates from other departments, subject to the agreement of the Classics Department and their home department. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.What is Greek lyric poetry? What are its powers, its claims, its purposes? How does it sing or speak? What are its effects? Who are its most significant and celebrated practitioners, and how best should we appreciate their works? What is distinctive about Greek lyric: as a form of cultural expression, as genre, literary form, a body of texts, a set of voices, as emotional content? How might we model its relations with other social and cultural aspects of archaic and classical Greece, such as religion, performance, politics, sexuality, sport? How should we conceptualize it, in relation to broader categories such as song / rhythm / meter / music / literature / rhetoric / history? How do we, should we, can we relate to its intensities of emotional expression, its modes of address, its uses of myth and imagery, its attitudes to materiality, its sense of its own time, and its contextualizations? What, even, might we learn about Classics, as an idea, from thinking about Greek lyric?

Also included is an introduction offering a brief account of the poets, as well as explanatory notes on the texts.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Not merely a selection, it covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments (apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides) and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and reflected all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.-greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides-produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity.

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