Francesca Modini

Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in Imperial Greek Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first major study of Greek lyric poetry in imperial Greek culture. It shows how knowledge of lyric enabled imperial writers to demonstrate a more sophisticated level of paideia; and reveals how lyric traditions mobilised distinctive discourses of self-fashioning, local identity, community-making and power crucial for Greeks under Rome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009518246
• ISBN-10: 1009518240
• Artikelnr.: 72876025

Autorenporträt

FRANCESCA MODINi is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Imperial Greek Literature, Rhetoric and Lyric: Why?; Part I.
Imperial Phenomenology of Lyric: 1. Lyric as literature: locating lyric
poetry in imperial Paideia; 2. Coming (back) to life: materiality, locality
and performance of lyric; Part II. Aelius Aristides' Lyric: 3. Princeps
Sophistarum: Aristides' construction of lyric and his persona; 4. A praise
of two cities: local (and) lyric traditions for New Corinth; 5. The
politics of Harmonia: Stasis and political song in Rhodes; 6. Musical
Empires: Aristides' Athens and Rome; Epilogue. From lyric to Aristides and
back, and forward.