Thalia Delighting in Song: Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry

Emmet I. Robbins

Published by University of Toronto Press 2013

Thalia Delighting in Song

Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry

Emmet I. Robbins
Edited by: Bonnie MacLachlan

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442662346

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Robbins Emmet I. :

Emmet I. Robbins (1939–2011) was chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto.
MacLachlan Bonnie :

Bonnie MacLachlan is an associate professor emerita in the Department of Classical Studies at Western University.

Reviews

David A. Campbell, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria:
“Thalia Delighting in Song is a major contribution to research. The writing is beautifully clear and easy to read, and the book has many delightful twists.”

Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago:
“There is no other book I know of that can teach the reader so much about what it means to read Greek lyric poems literately, sensitively, and passionately as Thalia Delighting in Song. These essays are among the very best writings on Greek lyric poetry from the last decades of the twentieth century, and to read through them all is not only profoundly instructive, but also profoundly moving. Robbins’s close readings and deft interpretations of individual poetic texts in his scholarly essays work splendidly together with his general articles on a number of Greek lyric poets: taken together, they provide both a larger framework and a detailed specification of the themes that Robbins has so acutely and sensitively identified. Thalia Delighting in Song is a wonderful book.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
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The Education of Achilles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Achilles to Thetis: Iliad 1.365–412 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Alcman’s Partheneion: Legend and Choral Ceremony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
‘Every Time I Look at You . . .’: Sappho Thirty-One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
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Heracles, the Hyperboreans, and the Hind: Pindar, Ol. 3 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
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The Gifts of the Gods: Pindar’s Third Pythian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
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Nereids with Golden Distaffs: Pindar, Nem. 5 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
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eBook

Published: June 17, 2013
ISBN: 9781442662346