Traditional Elegy: The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry

by R. Scott Garner

Though often assumed by scholars to be a product of traditional, and perhaps oral, compositional practices comparable to those found in early Greek epic, archaic elegy has not until this point been analyzed in similar detail with respect to such verse-making techniques. This volume is intended to redress some of this imbalance by exploring several issues related to the production of Greek elegiac poetry. By investigating elegy's metrical partitioning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199757925
• ISBN13: 9780199757923
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"