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    Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
    Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
    Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
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    Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry

    By Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

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    Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the book shows that Archaic poets often look very different in the new social, cultural, and political setting of Hellenistic Alexandria. For example, the Alexandrian Sappho evolves from the singer of Archaic Lesbos but has distinct associations and contexts, from Ptolemaic politics and Macedonian queens to the new phenomenon of the poetry book and an Alexandrian scholarship intent on preservation and codification.


    A study of Hellenistic poetic culture and an interpretation of some of the Archaic poets it so lovingly preserved, Arion's Lyre is also an examination of how one poetic culture reads another--and how modern readings of ancient poetry are filtered and shaped by earlier readings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateJan 4, 2010
    ISBN9781400834891
    Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
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    Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

    Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. He is the author of Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition.

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