Greek Elegy
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De Tirteu, poeta espartano arcaico do século VII a.C., restaram-nos apenas poemas elegíacos fragmentários. Seus fragmentos dividem-se entre aqueles que narravam a história e os preceitos espartanos, instituídos por reis descendentes dos... more
"Aetia Romana. SH 957 (P.Hamb. inv. 666 verso) and the legend of the founding of Rome in the Greek world."
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for... more
Ce document constitue une avant-publication, dans le cadre de l'édition à venir des fragments poétiques du IIIe s. de n. è.
A short summary of Tyrtaeus martial elegy, namely the Fragments 10, 11 and 12 W.
Partindo do pressuposto de que há um vínculo inequívoco entre a poesia elegíaca do período arcaico (século VII-VI a.C) e o contexto social que a determina, este texto propõe-se a uma breve análise de passagens de Calino e Tirteu, e mais... more
un percorso didattico sull'elegia greca arcaica
The inscription known as ‘The Pride of Halikarnassos’ or ‘Salmakis inscription’ (late 2nd-early 1st cent. BC) provides a significant example of the self-representation of a late Hellenistic city as well as of the construction of its... more
Si indaga il rapporto tra epos ed elegia alla luce del nuovo P. Oxy. 4708 contente l'elegia di Archiloco sul mito di Telefo. Il contenuto mitico e il linguaggio epico fanno pensare ad un'elegia pubblica, riconducibile ad un episodio della... more
This paper examines the poetic persona of Sappho in the fragment 31V, one of the most erotic poem in Ancient Greek literature. By describing Sappho's cycle and the theories of ancient homoerotism, I proceed to an alternative analysis of... more
Convegno internazionale “Elegy and Iambus: History and Challenge of Two Poetic Genres” – “Elegia e giambo: storia e sfide di due generi poetici”, 25-27 maggio 2022. Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane –... more
Archilochus' relationship to Thasos has long troubled scholars. The poet, numerous ancient sources attest, was involved in the Parian settlement of Thasos, an island 400 km away at the other end of the Aegean. As such, he is not only our... more
Paper draft distributed in advance of "Oral Literature and Literate Orality" workshop at Stanford University, 25 April 2016.
In this paper I suggest that at the beginning of the Metamorphoses through narrative techniques and the structure of the verses, in particular lines 1.10-14, the poet claims to be a fabricator mundi and that his text exists before the... more
In this article, I present all elegiac fragments from Anacreon of Teos in an annotated translation. This translation attempts to recreate, to some degree, the rhythm from the greek elegiac couplet.
Thgn. 323-8, 595-8 and 1171-6 are to be interpreted as examples of dialogic sequences born for/from the performance at symposium. The paper discusses the exegetical and textual problems of the
three passages.
three passages.
Survey of Hellenistic narrative elegy on cities and on contemporary people
Starting from the recent book by Giulio Colesanti (Questioni teognidee. La genesi simposiale di un corpus di elegie, Roma 2011), this paper offers some critical observations on the hypothesis that the Theognidea Sylloge as a whole may be... more
Alcune scene omeriche di carattere simposiale (Il. 24; Od. 4) presentano conversazioni tra eroi che ricordano da vicino tematiche dell'elegia trenodica. Il lutto infatti costituisce una tematica ben presente tra i temi più caratteristici... more
In Plat. Men. 95e, the much debated expression ὀλίγον μεταβάς, that introduces the quotation of Theogn. 434-438, should not be interpreted in a spatial sense (“a little further on” or similar) and does not allow any deduction on the form... more
Epigrams should not be thought of too much as a self-contained genre. For the most part, Greek epigrams are a subset of the genre-or super-genre-of elegiacs. At all events, non-epigrammatic elegiacs form an important point of comparison,... more
A revised version of this paper is now published as Nelson, T.J. (2019) “’Most Musicall, Most Melancholy’: Avian Aesthetics of Lament in Greek and Roman Elegy”, Dictynna 16, http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1914.
Sommario: p. 3 Introduzione p. 7 Cap. 1 L'elegia di argomento storico-mitico come genere letterario p. 23 Cap. 2 L'elegia diegetica tra l'età arcaica e l'inizio dell'età classica p. 51 Cap. 3 Le elegie di Simonide di Ceo sulle guerre... more
"While the first period of the elegiac distich, a 6da, is composed by a perfect alternance of Monosyllabic and potentially-dysyllabic Components, the second period presents a first colon that follows the same structure up to the fifth... more
Uma das elegias mais debatidas e importantes do corpus teognídeo é aquela compreendida pelos versos 237 a 254. Considerados por muitos como o epílogo do chamado “Ciclo de Cirno”, os versos consistem em um manifesto do poder imortalizador... more
Minha tese de doutorado, defendida em 2017. É um estudo sobre poemas da Teognideia que procurou identificar traços compositivos que reforçassem a tese de que a performance da elegia seria exclusivamente voltada para o simpósio. A versão... more
This book explores the botanical metaphors used in archaic and classical Greek poetic traditions. It is inspired by cognitive theories of metaphor, which I readapted so to meet the demands of a historical anthropology of the body and of... more
The paper focuses on the possible influence of archaic poetry on the Telephus frieze on the Pergamon altar. The traditional interpretation of the frieze has found the primary root of inspiration for the representation of the Telephus myth... more
A new examination of the ms. Par. Gr. 2739 (whose stemmatic position is much debated, both for the Theognidea and for the APl) leads to the conclusion that the manuscript, at least for its Theognidean section, is a descriptus of the Lond.... more
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Nessa live tratamos da obra "Elegia Grega Arcaica" com tradução e organização de Giuliana Ragusa e Rafael Brunhara
Nessa live tratamos da obra "Elegia Grega Arcaica" com tradução e organização de Giuliana Ragusa e Rafael Brunhara