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100 1 $aSchmidt, Michael,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006754
245 14 $aThe first poets :$blives of the ancient Greek poets /$cMichael Schmidt.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2005.
300 $axxviii, 410 pages :$bmaps ;$c25 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gI.$tOrpheus of Thrace -- $gII.$tThe legend poets -- $gIII.$tHomer -- $gIV.$tThe Homeric Apocrypha -- $gV.$tThe Iliad and the Odyssey -- $gVI.$tHesiod -- $gVII.$tArchilochus of Paros -- $gVIII.$tAlcman of Sardis -- $gIX.$tMimnermus of Colophon -- $gX.$tSemonides of Amorgos -- $gXI.$tAlcaeus of Mytilene -- $gXII.$tSappho of Eressus -- $gXIII.$tTheognis of Megara -- $gXIV.$tSolon of Athens -- $gXV.$tStesichorus of Himera -- $gXVI.$tIbycus of Rhegion -- $gXVII.$tAnacreon of Teos -- $gXVIII.$tHipponax of Ephesus -- $gXIX.$tSimonides of Cos -- $gXX.$tCorinna of Tanagra -- $gXXI.$tPindar of Thebes -- $gXXII.$tBacchylides of Cos -- $gXXIII.$tCallimachus of Cyrene -- $gXXIV.$tApollonius of Rhodes -- $gXXV.$tTheocritus of Syracuse.
500 $aMap on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"In The First Poets, Schmidt rescues the lives of classical Greek poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the "dirty old man of poetry"; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others." "Combining the verifiable facts of their lives and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPoets, Greek$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106050
650 0 $aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105402
852 00 $bbar$hPA3064$i.S36 2005