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Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture : Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism, Hardback Book

Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture : Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism Hardback

Edited by Richard (University of Cambridge) Hunter, Ian (University of Reading) Rutherford

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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 tyrants, and on into the fluid mobility of imperial and late antique culture.

The emphasis is both on why poets travelled, and on how local communities used the skills of these outsiders for their own purposes.

Wandering poets are also set within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation between communities and are seen as one particularly powerful manifestation of a feature of ancient life which is too often overlooked.

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