Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

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David Fearn (P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Bacchylides

Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

David Fearn (P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
12 July 2007

Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: poetry & poets; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

Bacchylides:

Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC.

In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros

('circular chorus') and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

By: David Fearn (P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics Corpus Christi College Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199215508
ISBN 10: 0199215502
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 12 July 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tradition and Contextualization I. Praise 1: The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B) 2: Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13 II. Bacchylides Dithyrambs and the Kuklios Khoros 3: Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception 4: Contexts 5: Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens Conclusion

David Fearn is P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Reviews for Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition

The book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. Barbara Graziosi, London Review of Books ...throughly researched, wide-ranging...an extremely stimulating and thorough reading of some of Bacchylides' poems...and should be consulted by everyone interested not only in archaic Greek poetry, nut also in Athenian performance culture Giambattista D'Alessio Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...the first English-language monograph on Bacchylides in more than twenty years. This book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. Barbara Graziosi, The London Review of Books