Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introducing Greek lyric
- Part I: Contexts and topics
- Part II: Poets and traditions
- 8 Iambos
- 9 Elegy: Forms, functions and communication
- 10 Alcman, Stesichorus and Ibycus
- 11 Alcaeus and Sappho
- 12 Anacreon and the Anacreontea
- 13 Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides
- 14 Ancient Greek popular song
- 15 Timotheus the New Musician
- Part III: Reception
- Chronology of select melic, elegiac and iambic poets
- Further Reading
- Glossary
- List of works cited
- Index
9 - Elegy: Forms, functions and communication
from Part II: - Poets and traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Introducing Greek lyric
- Part I: Contexts and topics
- Part II: Poets and traditions
- 8 Iambos
- 9 Elegy: Forms, functions and communication
- 10 Alcman, Stesichorus and Ibycus
- 11 Alcaeus and Sappho
- 12 Anacreon and the Anacreontea
- 13 Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides
- 14 Ancient Greek popular song
- 15 Timotheus the New Musician
- Part III: Reception
- Chronology of select melic, elegiac and iambic poets
- Further Reading
- Glossary
- List of works cited
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric , pp. 168 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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