ISBN10: 0520051009, ISBN13: 9780520051003, [publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press] Hardcover XIV, 292 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Part I. PRETRAGIC POETRY IN GREECE -- 1. Poetry as a Performing Art -- 2. Text and Re-performance -- 3. The Forests of Myths -- Part II. THE CONFLUENCE -- 4. Poetry in Sixth-Century Athens -- Part III. TRAGIC POETRY -- 5. Some Features of Tragic Music and Meter -- 6. Old and New in Early Tragedy -- 7. Epilogue: The Enactment of a Greek Lyric Poem -- Appendices -- I. Performances (Especially Agones Mousikoi) at Religious Festivals -- II. The Rhapsodes -- III. The Kitharodes -- IV. Choral Lyric Performance -- V. Performance of Other Kinds of Greek Poetry -- VI. Texts in Archaic and Classical Times, Down to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War -- VII. Re-performances of Nondramatic Poetry -- VIII. Nondramatic Poems Apparently Composed for Two or More Voices -- IX. Passages Illustrating Ancient Views on the Relationship Between Tragedy and Nontragic Poetry -- X. Similarities Between the Meters of Anacreon and Aeschylus. - This original study advances our understanding of the entire tradition of Greek poetry from Homer to Euripides. Arguing against theories that have domi ...
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Univ of California Pr, January Date: 1985. Hardcover. Signed Very Good/Good. Signed and inscribed by Author. 'John Herington - With best wishes and good omens.' Previous owner's name inside. No other marks or writing observed in text. Binding sound. Some creasing to spine and light wear on cover. Small chipping and scuffing to dust jacket. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1985. Univ of California Pr ISBN 0520051009 9780520051003 [US]

ISBN10: 0520051009, ISBN13: 9780520051003, [publisher: Univ of California Pr] Hardcover Very Good
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