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Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history.
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ISBN: 067401958X 9780674019584 Year: 2006 Volume: 11 Publisher: Washington Center for Hellenic studies

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Early Greek poets' lives : the shaping of the tradition
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ISBN: 1282948822 9786612948824 9004193286 9004186158 Year: 2010 Volume: 322 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”

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Archilochus. --- Classical biography - History and criticism. --- Classical biography -- History and criticism. --- Greece - Biography - History and criticism. --- Greece -- Biography -- History and criticism. --- Greek prose literature - History and criticism. --- Greek prose literature -- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Hipponax. --- Hipponax, fl. 540-537 B.C. --- Poets, Greek - Biography - History and criticism. --- Poets, Greek -- Biography -- History and criticism. --- Sappho. --- Stesichorus. --- Terpander. --- Poets, Greek --- Greek prose literature --- Classical biography --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Hipponax, --- Greece --- Greek poets --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Terpandro --- Ipponatte, --- Archiloque --- Arkhilokhos --- Stesichoros --- Stesichorus van Himera --- Stesichoros van Himera --- Stesichorus --- Hesiodos --- Hesiod --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Biography --- Sapho --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Sappho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho

Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer
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ISBN: 0674996062 9780674996069 Year: 2003 Volume: 496 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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"Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's Theogony and Words and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey). Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet's life." "The Hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long; several run only a half dozen lines. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and To Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites, the Battle of Frogs and Mice, and, for the first time in English, a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. The edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts, translated into English for the first time."--Jacket.

Dioscorus of Aphrodito : his work and his world.
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ISBN: 0520062264 0585333211 1597409782 9780520062269 Year: 1988 Volume: 16 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

Inventing Homer : the early reception of epic.
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ISBN: 0521809665 9780521809665 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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