Song Regained: Working with Greek Poetic Fragments

by Chris Carey and Giovan Battista D´Alessio

Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311071096X
• ISBN13: 9783110710960
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"