The Meters of Greek and Latin PoetryHackett Publishing, 1980 M01 1 - 138 pages A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry. |
Contents
Sigla | 3 |
Metrics and Prosody | 4 |
The Period | 6 |
Caesura Diaeresis Bridge | 8 |
The Hexameter ΙΟ | 9 |
The Elegiac Couplet | 12 |
The Iambic Trimeter | 13 |
The Trochaic Tetrameter | 15 |
The Period | 66 |
Caesura and Diaeresis | 67 |
The Elegiac Couplet | 71 |
Iambic Meters | 72 |
Trochaic Meters | 77 |
Lyric Poetry | 79 |
Lyric Dactyls | 81 |
Anapaests | 82 |
Lyric Meters | 16 |
Lyric Dactyls | 17 |
Anapaests | 20 |
Lyric Iambs and Trochees | 21 |
Ionic Meters | 23 |
Complex Lyric Meters | 26 |
Aeolic Meters | 29 |
Pindar and Bacchylides | 34 |
Tragedy and Comedy | 43 |
Dochmiacs | 50 |
PostClassical Developments | 51 |
Appendix | 54 |
Introduction page | 59 |
Note on the Saturnian | 60 |
Sigla | 61 |
Metrics and Prosody | 62 |
Lyric lambs Trochees Cretics and Bacchiacs | 84 |
Ionics and Choriambs | 89 |
Combinations of Lyric Meters | 93 |
Epodes and Asynarteta | 94 |
Aeolic Meters | 97 |
Stichic and nonstichic Lyric Poetry | 102 |
The Odes of Horace | 103 |
The Cantica of Plautus and Seneca | 106 |
Later Developments | 114 |
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS | 121 |
LIST OF METERS | 129 |
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ABBREVIATIONS | 138 |
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Common terms and phrases
acephalous Aeolic meters Alcaeus alcaic anacl anaclast anapaestic ancipitia antistrophe Archilochus asclepiadeans asynarteton bacchiac Bacchylides break brevia brevis in longo caesura cantica catalectic Catullus cho ba choriamb clausula comedy composed consisting cr hipp cretic dactylic hexameter Dactylo-epitrites diaeresis dimeter dissyllabic dochmiac double breve drama e)st Epodes Example fourth glyconic Greek Meters hemiepes hiatus hipponactean Horace hymns iambic trimeter iambs iambs and trochees ionic Latin meters Latin poetry Latin verse lecythion long element long syllable longa longum lyric dactyls lyric meters metra metrical units metron natural word accent notation occurs Odes pause period pherecratean Pindar Plautus poem poets polyschematist preceding rhythm Roman Sappho section 17 section VII section XV Seneca short element short syllables spoken verse stichic compositions stichic sequence strophe structure sung tetrameter trochaic trochees usually uu uu uu Vergil verse forms word ending XVIII γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν
