Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Sarah Nooter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-32035-1 (ISBN)

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Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it. This book examines ancient Greek poetry, including Homer, Archilochus, Sappho, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar and Timotheus, to show how this poetry offered the embodiment of its rhythms as an answer to change and loss.

This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice. Whether carved in stone or wood, printed onto a page, beat out by a mimetic or rhythmic body, or humming in the mind, poems are meant to engrave and adhere. Ancient Greek poetry exhibits a particularly acute awareness of change, decay, and the ephemerality inherent in mortality. Yet it couples its presentation of this awareness with an offering of meaningful embodiment in shifting forms that are aligned with, yet subtly manipulative of, mortal time. Sarah Nooter's argument ranges widely across authors and genres, from Homer and the Homeric Hymns through Sappho and Archilochus to Pindar and Aeschylus. The book will be compelling reading for all those interested in Greek literature and in poetry more broadly.

SARAH NOOTER is Professor of Classics and Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge, 2012), The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge, 2017), and co-editor, with Shane Butler, of Sound and the Ancient Senses (2018). She is Editor of the journal Classical Philology.

1. Did the heart beat? Rhythm and the body in ancient Greek poetry; 2. The substance of song: music in Homer and the Homeric Hymns; 3. The erotics of again: time and touch in Sappho; 4. Situating Simonides: stones, song, and sound; 5. Writing the future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the tablet of the mind; 6. Recovering the bodies of Archilochus' Cologne Epode and Timotheus' Persae.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	176 x 250 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-32035-1 / 1009320351
ISBN-13	978-1-009-32035-1 / 9781009320351
Zustand	Neuware