Bøger af Sarah (University of Chicago) Nooter

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it. This book examines ancient Greek poetry, including Homer, Archilochus, Sappho, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar and Timotheus, to show how this poetry offered the embodiment of its rhythms as an answer to change and loss.

This book uses close readings of the Greek texts to examine the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and to argue that their identities are grounded in poetic power. It offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres.