Epic situation and the politics of exhortation : political uses of poetic tradition in archaic Greek poetry

The thesis begins by exploring a central problem: while the genre of elegiac exhortation poetry both invites and itself exploits analogies between, on the one hand, the immediate audience and performance setting of the poem and, on the other, the broader civic identities of that audience and larger...

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Main Author: Irwin, E.
Published: University of Cambridge 2000
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604960