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The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation : From Homer to the Hellenistic Age / Francis Cairns.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 171Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 447 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111481067
  • 9783111482736
  • 9783111481388
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  • 880
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Summonses of Gods for their Help -- 2 Implicit -- 3 Standing by, Sending -- Part II: Summonses of Gods for their Help with “Come!” and Equivalents -- 4 Archaic -- 5 Aeschylus, Sophocles -- 6 Euripides -- 7 Aristophanes -- 8 Post-Classical, Hellenistic -- Part III: Invitations of Gods for their Benefit -- 9 Archaic -- 10 Classical -- 11 Hellenistic -- Part IV: Summonses and Invitations of Humans and the Inanimate -- 12 Sending -- 13 Direct -- 14 The Dead -- Part V: The Inanimate – and Inverse Summonses -- 15 The Inanimate ― and Inverse Summonses -- 16 Overview -- Appendix 1: Greek Poetic Kletika discussed in Chh. 1–15 -- Appendix 2: Incidences of the Kletic Key-Words -- Appendix 3: Notes on some Kletic Topoi -- Appendix 4: Menander Rhetor on Kletic Hymns -- Appendix 5: The Prescription of Menander Rhetor for the Kletic Speech -- Appendix 6: The Line-Numbering of Dramatic Passages -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Summary: The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by celebrated Greek poets ― Homer, Sappho, Alcaeus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius, among others. Analysis of this poetic corpus associates it with the ‘kletikon’, an ancient rhetorical genre of content, and reveals everywhere in it the commonplaces of that genre, thus allowing new sub-types of the kletikon to be discovered, and the development of the genre over the centuries to be charted. When individual invitations and summonses are viewed against this generic background, their originality and merits emerge along with their poets’ unique voices. Each summons and invitation is presented, translated, discussed in detail, and, when part of a longer work, linked to its context. This volume is directed to scholars and students of Classics; scholars of the Latin equivalent genre, the ‘vocatio’, which persisted into the Renaissance, can also find in it an intellectual model.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Summonses of Gods for their Help -- 2 Implicit -- 3 Standing by, Sending -- Part II: Summonses of Gods for their Help with “Come!” and Equivalents -- 4 Archaic -- 5 Aeschylus, Sophocles -- 6 Euripides -- 7 Aristophanes -- 8 Post-Classical, Hellenistic -- Part III: Invitations of Gods for their Benefit -- 9 Archaic -- 10 Classical -- 11 Hellenistic -- Part IV: Summonses and Invitations of Humans and the Inanimate -- 12 Sending -- 13 Direct -- 14 The Dead -- Part V: The Inanimate – and Inverse Summonses -- 15 The Inanimate ― and Inverse Summonses -- 16 Overview -- Appendix 1: Greek Poetic Kletika discussed in Chh. 1–15 -- Appendix 2: Incidences of the Kletic Key-Words -- Appendix 3: Notes on some Kletic Topoi -- Appendix 4: Menander Rhetor on Kletic Hymns -- Appendix 5: The Prescription of Menander Rhetor for the Kletic Speech -- Appendix 6: The Line-Numbering of Dramatic Passages -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index

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The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by celebrated Greek poets ― Homer, Sappho, Alcaeus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius, among others. Analysis of this poetic corpus associates it with the ‘kletikon’, an ancient rhetorical genre of content, and reveals everywhere in it the commonplaces of that genre, thus allowing new sub-types of the kletikon to be discovered, and the development of the genre over the centuries to be charted. When individual invitations and summonses are viewed against this generic background, their originality and merits emerge along with their poets’ unique voices. Each summons and invitation is presented, translated, discussed in detail, and, when part of a longer work, linked to its context. This volume is directed to scholars and students of Classics; scholars of the Latin equivalent genre, the ‘vocatio’, which persisted into the Renaissance, can also find in it an intellectual model.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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