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Bacchylides: A Selection

Bacchylides: A Selection

Maehler, H.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

General ReferenceAncient History GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521599776
ISBN13: 9780521599771
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.72 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.34
Language: English
Like his contemporary Pindar, Baccylides (c. 520-450 BC) composed songs of praise for princes and victorious athletes and songs for choral performances at religious festivals. Although lost in Late Antiquity, many of them have been recovered from papyri found in Egypt. Their clear formal structure and vivid narrative make them more easily accessible than Pindar's verse and they are elegant specimens of the exclusive and sophisticated choral lyric poetry from the first half of fifth-century BC Greece. (This selection contains the first English commentary since 1905).

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