Calame, Claude
Masks of Authority

Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics. Translated from the French by Peter M. Burk.

Important examples in the book include some of the Homeric Hymns, didactic poetry by Hesiod, a bucolic poem of Theocritus, performed poetry by Sappho and mimetic poems by Callimachus, Attic tragedy and comedy in masked performances (Sophocles and Aristophanes), an iconographic inscription, an authoritative scientific discourse by Hippocrates, and an initiatory commentary to an Orphic theogony. The result is a selective history of Greek poetics from the perspective of its authorial devices and social functions, its place between oral and written traditions. XIV,248 Seiten mit vier Abb., gebunden (Myth and Poetics/Cornell University Press 2005) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed