Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture (English, Richard Hunter | Ian Rutherford)

About the Book

Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic…

ISBN: 9780521898782