The Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry: Studies in Minor Genres - Hardcover

by Krystyna Bartol (Volume Editor), Jerzy Danielewicz (Volume Editor)

The book highlights the dynamics of changing the concept of small-scale poetic genres represented by texts in Greek from the time of the Antonines to the end of the sixth century. The introduction situates the adopted research profile against current theories and interpretative trends. Individual chapters, written by eminent specialists in the field, take the form of richly exemplified synthetic overviews or selected case studies with regard to the socio-cultural aspects of the poetry under investigation. Much attention is paid to the role of rhetorical factors, as well as to metrical and performative issues, considered from a fresh angle.

Author Biography

Krystyna Bartol is Professor of Classics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. She has published widely on Greek lyric poetry, especially on elegy and iambus, as well as on Greek Imperial literature. She co-authored with Jerzy Danielewicz the first ever Polish translation of Athenaeus (2010).

Jerzy Danielewicz, Professor Emeritus at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, has published extensively on Greek lyric poetry of the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. He is also the author of the book The Metres of Greek Lyric Poetry. Problems of Notation and Interpretation (1996).

Contributors are: Krystyna Bartol, Ewen Bowie, Jerzy Danielewicz, Richard Hunter, Jan Kwapisz, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Marco Perale.