Wandering poets in ancient Greek culture : travel, locality, and pan-hellenism /
"This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the Near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic tyrants, and on into th...
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Hunter and Ian Rutherford
- Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts, and festivals / Mary Bachvarova
- Thamyris the Thracian : the archetypal wandering poet? / Peter Wilson
- Read on arrival / Richard P. Martin
- Wandering poets, archaic style / Ewen Bowie
- Defining local communities in Greek lyric poetry / Giovan Battista D'Alessio
- Wandering poetry, 'travelling' music : Timotheus' muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities / Lucia Prauscello
- Epigrammatic contest, poeti vaganti, and local history / Andrej Petrovic
- World travellers : the associations of artists of Dionysus / Sophia Aneziri
- Aristodama and the Aetolians : an itinerant poetess and her agenda / Ian Rutherford
- Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world / Angelos Chaniotis.
