Robbins, Emmet, 1939-2011.

Thalia delighting in song essays on ancient Greek poetry / Emmet I. Robbins ; edited by Bonnie MacLachlan. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : illustrations, digital file. - Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 53 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Public Poetry : Alcman, Stesichorus, Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides -- The Education of Achilles -- Achilles to Thetis: Iliad 1.365-412 -- Alcman's Partheneion : Legend and Choral Ceremony -- 'Every Time I Look at You ... ': Sappho Thirty-One -- Who's Dying in Sappho Fr. 94? -- Sappho Fr. 94: A Further Note -- Sappho, Aphrodite, and the Muses -- Heracles, the Hyperboreans, and the Hind: Pindar, Ol. 3 -- Intimations of Immortality: Pindar, Ol. 3.34-5 -- The Broken Wall, The Burning Roof and Tower: Pindar, Ol. 8.31-46 -- The Gifts of the Gods: Pindar's Third Pythian -- Jason and Cheiron: The Myth of Pindar's Fourth Pythian -- Cyrene and Cheiron: The Myth of Pindar's Ninth Pythian -- Pindar's Oresteia and the Tragedians -- Nereids with Golden Distaffs: Pindar, Nem. 5 -- The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry -- Famous Orpheus -- To Be Redeemed from Fire by Fire: The Deaths of Heracles and Siegfried.

Thalia Delighting in Song ensures that the next generation of Classicists will continue to benefit from the insights of one of the foremost scholars in the field.



9781442662346


Greek poetry--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PA3092 / .T435 2013