Iambic Ideas Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire,9780742508170

Iambic Ideas Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire

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ISBN13: 9780742508170
ISBN10: 074250817X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-16
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Iambic Ideas explores the concept of the iambic as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings--Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the iambic idea is impossible to define in absolute terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the iambic tendency in Sappho, the reusing of iambi for Roman epodes, and even the instances of iambic absence in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the iambic is its own inherent variability.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xi
Early Greek Iambic Poetry: The Importance of Narrative
1(28)
Ewen Bowie
What is That Man Doing in Sappho, fr. 31 V.?
29(12)
Antonio Aloni
Iambic Motifs in Alcaeus' Lyrics
41(24)
Angela M. Andrisano
Iambic Patterns in Aristophanic Comedy
65(12)
Giuseppe Zanetto
Callimachus Iamb 4: From Performance to Writing
77(22)
Lowell Edmunds
Iambic Presences in Ennius' Saturae
99(18)
Alessandro Russo
Catullian Iambics, Catullian Iambi
117(24)
Stephen J. Heyworth
Horace and Iambos: The Poet as Literay Historian
141(24)
Alessandro Barchiesi
Some Generic Problems in Horace's Epodes: Or, On (Not) Being Archilochus
165(22)
Stephen J. Harrison
Epode 14: Horace's Carmen Inconditum?
187(18)
Lindsay C. Watson
Ego Polivi Versibus Senarits: Phaedrus and Iambic Poetry
205(14)
Alberto Cavarzere
Late Antique Iambics and Iambike Idea
219(38)
Gianfranco Agosti
Index Locorum 257(4)
About the Contributors 261

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