Herodotus and lyric poetry

Lyric Poetry as Society

Letras Classicas 8.pmd

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

Narrative approaches to lyric poetry: On Kim Sowöl’s The Azaleas

This paper aims at illustrating how narrative theories can apply to the analysis of lyric poetry with an example from Korean literature: The Azaleas by Kim Sowöl. This poem in seven-and-five-syllable meter as well as with its thematic aspect that is concerned with lamentation or broken heart is considered the most representative of the folkloric tradition in the history of Korean lyric poetry. ...

Germanic Poetry Surrounding the Third Crusade: The Role of Lyric in Portraying Crusade Attitude

When Jerusalem fell in the Battle of Hattin in 1187, a drastic shift occurred in Crusading mentality that had repercussions throughout Europe. Since the call of the First Crusade in 1095 by Pope Urban II, the fundamental motivator and goal of the movement was Jerusalem.AcrossWestern Europe, mobilization occurred in kings and peasants alike. Enthusiasm swept through the classes, leading to massi...

The Aesthetics of Lyric Poetry in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy

Both the ancient Greeks and the moderns, Friedrich Nietzsche notes in his first published work The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872), held Homer’s objective art of epics and Archilochus’s subjective art of lyric poetry in equally high esteem. However, if a work of art, according to the modern aesthetics of such figures as Kant, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer, must be “object...