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What is Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists about?

It is difficult, if not impossible, for the modern student of Greek poetry to understand immediately the structural nuances, poetic intent, and literary allusions of poets writing in ancient Greek. The ways in which a contemporary audience responded to the poetry depended on an understanding of their own language that the modern reader cannot hope to have. In this careful and original study of formal structure and poetic composition in early Greek elegies, A.W.H. Adkins supplies at least some of the tools of interpretation available to the ancient Greek and so reconstructs, for the modern reader, the sensibilities of the original audience.

Author

Adkins, A. W. H. (Arthur W. H.)

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226007250

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities