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The first steps in Hebrew secular poetry took place around the turn of the ninth century, under the impact of contemporary Arabic poetry. This impact was so great that some researchers, incorrectly, define the Hebrew poetry as a school which is distinct from the Arabic school on…
"In a book that describes how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle looks at poetry as an occasion for the performer's self-presentation. By discussing a wide range of pre-Hellenistic poetry, including Sappho's, and comparing how men and wome…
Much has been written in recent years on Plato as a critic of literature; but no commentaries have appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his attack on poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings togethe…
Ovid's Fasti, a "calendar poem" on the holidays and feast days of the Roman calendar, was written in Rome and revised while Ovid was in exile on the barbarian frontier, banished by Augustus from the cultivated society of Rome that had been his delight. Ovid's work in exile evinc…
