GENTILI, B.,1
Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica. Da Omero al V secolo.
Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1984. IX,430p. Cloth wrps.
'The poetry of Archaic Greece was conceived in a different manner and was addressed to a different audience from that of the modern world: it was, above all, an oral art directed towards a performance, in which the poet would encounter an audience occupying broadly the same social, political, and religious position that he himself did. All this would be generally agreed, but it has been established in Gentili's book with an eloquence and a wealth of documentation not previously brought to a discussion of such topics. (…) G. concentrates upon choral lyric, monody, and iambic and elegiac verse (…). Poetry, in intimate association with music and dance, is seen as the most important manifestation of Greek culture from remote antiquity.' (J.T. HOOKER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1986, p.61-62). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.
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