Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece

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What difference does music make to performance poetry, and how did the ancients understand this relationship? This volume explores the interaction of music and language in ancient Greek poetry, arguing that music crucially informs the ways in which these texts create meaning and exploring its place in contemporary critical writings.

subjects: Greek poetry, history and criticism,  Music, greek and roman,  Greek poetry,  History and criticism,  Music,  History,  Kultur,  Kunstmusik,  Literatur,  Musik