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Copyright
(257 words)
[German version] A legally entrenched copyright protected by penalties did not exist in Greek and Roman antiquity ([1]; cf. [2]). Plagiarism was considered reprehensible but had no legal consequences. The occurrence described in Vitr. 7 praef. 4-7 according to which Aristophanes [4] of Byzantium exposed the victors of a poetic competition in Alexandria as plagiarists, who were then punished by the king, is an exception. Similarly, the wish of Martial [1] (1,52, cf. [3] ad loc.) that a plagiarist of his poems should be punished according to the
lex Fabia de plagiariis, is an express…
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Muse, invocation of the
(739 words)
[German version] Both Homeric epics (Homer) begin with an invocation of the Muse: The request, expressed in the i…
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Occasional poetry
(510 words)
[German version] A form of poetry created for a specific occasion, not as a result of the poet's autonomous desire. From a perspective that privileges original thinking, occasional poetry (OP) is often regarded as inferior [1. 9-11] but this is unjustified since large parts of ancient poetry from the earliest periods on are OP in a broader sense, as can be seen -- in what appears to be self-reflection -- in the song of Demodocus in Hom. Od. 8,250ff. [cf. 2. 35ff.…
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Court poetry
(182 words)
[German version] Its origin at the court of a king or prince was constituted for the content of court poetry (CP) in the narrower sense. As part of the court society (each differently constituted) the author contributes, with or without an explicit commission, to the legitimisation of rule by shaping power structures through his literature or, simply through his writing, by expanding these with a cultural dimension. The earliest example is the naming of the Aeneads in the Iliad; especially signifi…
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Commissioned poetry
(348 words)
[German version] comes into being when a poet accepts an explicit (not merely implied) request by a power not identical with the author (regarding rejection
recusatio ) and is therefore always occasional poetry. The request can come from a deity (inspiration), a ruler ( court poetry), another individual (a), or a community (b). (a) Ancient tradition holds that Simonides of Ceos was the first to produce paid commissioned poetry (CP) with his
epinikia in the 6th cent. BC (Schol. Aristoph. Pax 697b H.), followed by Pindar and Bacchylides [2. 46f.]. The trend toward…
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Recusatio
(154 words)
[German version] (literally 'refusal'). With the 'rejection' of epic poetry on aesthetic grounds, first formulated in the Hellenistic era, its affirmative-panegyric function also became obsolete [1]. In Rome, the
recusatio was first found in neoteric po…
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Dedication
(1,288 words)
I. Greek [German version] A. Definition The dedication of a literary work is the naming of a person from the author's surroundings with the intent of expressing an honour or gratitude to this person by association with the publication. (Occasionally the recipient was promised immortality [1. 25 f.]). Works which discuss the named person as a subject do not fall under this definition (e.g.,
enkṓmion ). It is apparent in works such as the ‘Epinician Odes’ of Pindar that the author is aware of his role as a mediator of fame. A specia…
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