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Author Robbins, Emmet, 1939-2011.

Title Thalia delighting in song : essays on ancient Greek poetry / Emmet I. Robbins ; edited by Bonnie MacLachlan.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 53
Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 53.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
Greek poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author MacLachlan, Bonnie.
Other Form: Print version: Robbins, Emmet I. Thalia Delighting in Song : Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442613430
ISBN 9781442662346 (electronic book)
1442662344 (electronic book)