The Lives of the Greek Poets
Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets.With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' l…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-0307-7
- EAN: 9781472503077
- Produktnummer: 17035967
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'542 KB
Über den Autor
Mary R. Lefkowitz is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Wellesley College, USA. She is the author of First-Person Fictions (1991), Not Out of Africa (1997), Greek Gods, Human Lives (2003) and Women in Greek Myth (Bloomsbury, 2007),. She is co-editor of Black Athena Revisited (revised edition, 1996) and Women's Life in Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury, 4th edition, 2015).
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