Wedding, gender, and performance in Ancient Greece /

This work reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition has shaped some of the great surviving literature, most notably epic and lyric poetry. By recovering a lost genre, we can detect important voices from the ancient Greek world, and see the...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Karanika, Andromache
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
This work reconstructs the wedding song tradition in Ancient Greece, and looks at how the wedding song tradition has shaped some of the great surviving literature, most notably epic and lyric poetry. By recovering a lost genre, we can detect important voices from the ancient Greek world, and see the nuances with which different poets used it.
Umfang:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Includes index.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780191993640
0191993646
9780198884583
0198884583
Schlagworte:
Religious poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Epithalamia > Greece > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Literature.
Literature: history & criticism.
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