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This book combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early 5th century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, it is argued, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides' Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros (‘circular ch ... More
Keywords: Bacchylides, Greek poetry, Greek literature, praise poetry, Dithyrambs, kuklios khoros, democratic Athens, Greek politics
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199215508 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215508.001.0001 |
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