Beschreibung:
Lowell Edmunds is a professor of classics at Rutgers University. His many books include Approaches to Greek Myth, available from Johns Hopkins. Robert W. Wallace is an associate professor of classics at Northwestern University. He is author of The Areopagos Council, to 307 b.c., also available from Johns Hopkins.
Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In Poetry, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Lowell Edmunds and Robert W. Wallace bring together a distinguished group of contributors to reconstruct the performance context of a wide array of works, including epic, tragedy, lyric, elegy, and proverb.