Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: sounding out The Poet’s Voice
- 1 The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey
- 2 Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar
- 3 Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody
- 4 Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics
- 5 The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past
- Bibliography
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: sounding out The Poet’s Voice
- 1 The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey
- 2 Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar
- 3 Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody
- 4 Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics
- 5 The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Poet's VoiceEssays on Poetics and Greek Literature, pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024