Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece Romney Jessica
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece Romney Jessica Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one…
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Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece Romney Jessica
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric.
The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as
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