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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 ar

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Author

Barbara Graziosi; David Fearn

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199215508

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25