Sea travels play a special role in the social dimension of archaic Greek poetry. In particular, for better or worse, poets’ mobility is stimulated by tyrants. The aim of my paper is to outline Anacreon’s life, by paying attention on his experiences and poetics as a traveler, also in comparison with the typical scenes of travel depicted by other poets. Although for a great part of his life Anacreon lived as a courtesan and his poetry was mainly tied to the static institution of symposium, his relationship with tyrants does not seem to have a bad reflection on his prospects of travel.
Traveling Poets in the Mediterranean Sea. The Routes of Anacreon of Teos
Bucceroni Lorenzo
2018
Abstract
Sea travels play a special role in the social dimension of archaic Greek poetry. In particular, for better or worse, poets’ mobility is stimulated by tyrants. The aim of my paper is to outline Anacreon’s life, by paying attention on his experiences and poetics as a traveler, also in comparison with the typical scenes of travel depicted by other poets. Although for a great part of his life Anacreon lived as a courtesan and his poetry was mainly tied to the static institution of symposium, his relationship with tyrants does not seem to have a bad reflection on his prospects of travel.File in questo prodotto:
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