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BOOK ENDINGS IN GREEK POETRY AND ARS AMATORIA 2 AND 3l) In the epilogue to Ars Amatoria 2, Ovid compares himself favourably to a range of characters from the Iliad noted for various sk?ls, such as AchiUes and Automedon (2.733-40). In so doing, he celebrates his sk?ls as praeceptor amoris. The following lines conclude the book (2.741-6):
Works of ancient Greek poetry are usually divided in 2 big categories: Epic poetry and Lyric poetry. Homer and Hesiod are the most recognized ancient Greek epic poets, while Sappho and Pindar are probably the most well-known lyric poets.
In this essay, I look at three Greek works from the imperial period: Quintus's Posthomerica, Triphiodorus's Sack of Troy, and Colluthus's Abduction of Helen. These poems display a highly paradoxical approach to literary origins. They maintain a hyper-close relationship to Homer, adopting his language, style, and Trojan subject.
11 Δεκ 2019 · Greek literature in its recorded form began and ended with two heavy epic “blows” that were separated by more than a millennium: Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey (eighth/seventh century BCE) at the beginning, and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (c. 500 CE) at the end.
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the...
Aeolic verse is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect.
melody, and movement. In their use of sound and rhythm, ancient Greek poems were of a piece with music, which directly affects the sensory perceptions and bodily experience of listeners. Hence, two early words for Greek verse epê (heroic or epic poetry) and melê (lyric poetry) 6 are both explicitly words that imply musical presence, not to ...
