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FEATHERS FLYING: AVIAN POETICS IN HESIOD, PINDAR, AND CALLIMACHUS.
- Source :
- American Journal of Philology; Summer2007, Vol. 128 Issue 2, p177-208, 32p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper treats a topos found in Greek poetry from the archaic to the Hellenistic period, involving a confrontation between antagonistic and contrasting species of birds. Tracing the continuities and distinctions among the uses of the conceit in Hesiod, Pindar, and Callimachus, I argue that on each occasion it serves poets as a means of articulating their literary personae and the ethical, stylistic, and generic choices shaping their compositions. Not just a means of poetic polemic, self-definition, and self-positioning, the avian terms used within the conceit also come to figure in the literary critical vocabulary of the late fifth century and its redeployment in Hellenistic times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00029475
- Volume :
- 128
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Philology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25742126
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2007.0031