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Traditional elegy : the interplay of meter, tradition, and context in early Greek poetry
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Traditional elegy : the interplay of meter, tradition, and context in early Greek poetry / R. Scott Garner.
ISBN
9780199757923
0199757925
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 152 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2013
Series
American classical studies ; v. 56
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index.
Contents
Elegy and its traditional possibilities
Formulas in early Greek elegy
Epic correption or "traditional" correption?
Further considerations
Appendices : I. Lexical formulas shared by the stichic hexameter, elegaic hexameter, and elegaic pentameter
II. Correption percentages by line position in the Iliad
III. Correption percentages by line position in the Odyssey
IV. Long-vowel correption percentages by line position in the Iliad
V. Long-vowel correption percentages by line position in the Odyssey
VI. Long-vowel epic correption categorizations for Homer
VII. Short-vowel epic correption in Iliad I and Odyssey I
VIII. Long-vowel epic correption in early elegy
IX. Short-vowel epic correption in early elegy
X. Correption in epic beyond Homer.
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