A Companion to Greek Lyric

A Companion to Greek Lyric
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Discover the power of Greek lyric with essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field today  Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, resulting in this topic becoming one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. In  A Companion to Greek Lyric , renowned Classical scholar Laura Swift delivers a collection of essays by international experts and emerging voices that offers up-to-date approaches on the methodology, contexts, and reception of Greek lyric from the archaic to the Hellenistic period.  This edited volume includes detailed analyses of the poets themselves, as well as a reflection of the current state of play in the study of Greek lyric. It showcases the scope and range of approaches to be found in scholarly work in the field.  Newcomers to the subject will benefit from the range of contextual and technical information included that allows for a more effective engagement with the lyric poets. Readers will also enjoy:  Guidance on working with texts that are mainly preserved as fragments A selection of ways in which lyric poetry has influenced and inspired writers from Rome to the modern era Recommendations for further reading that offer a starting point for how to follow up on a particular topic Perfect for undergraduate and master’s students taking courses on Greek lyric or survey courses on classical literature,  A Companion to Greek Lyric  also belongs in the libraries of students of English or Comparative Literature seeking an authoritative resource for Greek lyric.

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BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

A COMPANION TO GREEK LYRIC

Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Abbreviations and Standard Editions

Author Biographies

Preface

CHAPTER 1 The Lyric Chorus

The Great Masters of the Archaic and Early Classical Periods

Choruses, Chorus Leaders, Chorodidaskaloi, and Poets

Singing and Dancing with and for the Gods

Epilogue

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric

Some Recent Research

New Discoveries of Sappho

Simonides’ Elegy for Plataia

Archilochus’ Telephos Elegy

The Lille Stesichorus

Pindar’s Second Paian

Conclusion

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 3 Epic and Lyric

Introduction

I Epic and Elegy on War 1: Tyrtaeus

II Hesiod and Alcaeus on Drinking

III Eos and Tithonos across the Modes

IV Elegy and Epic on War 2: Simonides and Archilochus

V Alcaeus’ Epic Lesson: Damning Pittacus

VI Love and War 1: Helen in Sappho and Alcaeus

VII Ibycus’ Epic Lesson: Flattering Polycrates

VIII Love and War 2: Sappho fr. 44

IX Lyric into Epic, Epic into Lyric: Stesichorus

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 4 Commemorating the Athlete

Victory Memorials

Athletic Festivals and Events

Competitors and Politics

Conclusion

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium

Defining Aristocracy

Aristocracy as a Social Group

How to Be an Aristocrat?

The Symposium

Aristocratic Culture and Social Mobility

Greek Aristocracy as a Cultural Phenomenon

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 6 Politics

The Lyric Author

The Rise of Institutions

The Rise of an Aristocracy

Conflict and Tyranny

The Advent of Democracy?

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 7 Papyrology*

Introduction

Using Papyrological Editions

Editorial Symbols

Common Abbreviations

Printed Editions and Corpora

Digital Resources

The Editorial Process

Origins/Provenance

Physical Description and Layout

Palaeography

The Readings

Marginal Notes, Sigla, and Corrections

Dialect and Meter

Papyrological Ethics

Further Reading

Note

CHAPTER 8 Citation and Transmission

Reading Contexts

Citations: Lyric Detached

Commentaries: Reading Pindar

Conclusions

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 9 Meter and Music

Archaic Lyric Meters

Classical Lyric Meters

From Meter to Music

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 10 The Lyric Dialects

Introduction

Strong Dialects

Alcman

General

Particular

Sappho and Alcaeus

General

Particular

II The “Lyric Koinē”

Stesichorus

General

Particular

Anacreon

General

Particular

Ibycus

General

Particular

Simonides

General

Particular

Pindar

General

Particular

Bacchylides

General

Particular

Late-Classical and Hellenistic Lyric

Imperial Lyric

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 11 Deixis and World Building

Introduction

Some Definitions

Spatial Deixis

Temporal Deixis

Person Deixis

Words Building Worlds: Deixis in Text World Theory

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite’s Sanctuary

Spatiality and Modes of Spatial Discourse

Cyprus and Lived Space

Place, Space, and Genius Loci

Locus Amoenus: Divine and Pleasant Place

Gardens and Paradise

Utopia: The Good No-Place

Heterotopia: The Other Space

Gendered Place

Lesbian Cartographies

Conclusions: Her Space, Our Space, and Thirdspace

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments

Defining Performance

Performing the Ghost of Sappho

Acting the Emptiness of Sappho

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 14 Iambos

I Toward Terms and Forms

II Archilochus

III Semonides

IV Hipponax

V Hellenistic Iambos and Callimachus’s Iamboi

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 15 Elegy

Callinus

Tyrtaeus

Mimnermus

Xenophanes

Narrative Elegy

Elegy of the Classical Period

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 16 Stesichorus

Life

Works

Performance

Myth

Poems. Sack of Troy

Palinode

Geryoneis

The West

Ancient Reception and Influence

Modern Editions

FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 17 Alcman

Poetry in Puzzle Pieces

The First and Second Partheneia

A Choral Poet in Archaic Laconia

Other Genres, Performers, Occasions

Alcman the Composer

Figures of Poetic Authority and Creativity: Birds, Muses, Dreams

Contexts of Competition?

Local Poetry, International Horizons

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 18 Sappho1

Testimonia

The Fragments

The Historical Context

Modern Views of Sappho

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 19 Alcaeus

Alcaeus’ Poetry and Its Traditional Backgrounds

The Alcaean Question

Transmission and Reception

Alcaean Poetics

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 20 Ibycus and Anacreon1

Ibycus. Life and Works

Myth, Praise, and Lyric Poetry

Encomiastic Love

Anacreon. Life and Works

Wine, Love, and the Symposium

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 21 Solon and Theognis

Solon

Theognis

Theognis “Book Two”

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 22 Simonides

Introduction

Language and Pathos : Tragic Simonides

Praise and Tension

Communities and Commemoration: Simonides’ Elegies

Money, Memory, and the Burial of the Dead: Simonides’ Ancient Reception

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 23 Pindar

Biography

The Alexandrian Edition

The Epinicians

Pindaric Criticism

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 24 Bacchylides

Individuals and Cities, Gods and Celebration: Subjects and Contexts

Victory Odes

Dithyrambs

Other Genres

Conclusions

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 25 The New Music

What Is Meant by the “New Music”?

Who Were the “New Musicians”?

How Much of the New Music Has Survived and What Are These Songs About?

What Is New About the New Music? The Construction of New Music

A Series of Individual Innovations?

Socio-economic Changes and the Material Cause of the New Music

A New Rhetoric of the New

The New Music Framed as Political Threat

A New Poetics

The Experience of New Music

Glam and Ham

New Music in Action

Conclusion—New Directions for New Music

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 26 Dramatic Lyric

Choral Lyric: Form, Structure, Style

The Tragic Chorus and Its Ritual Heritage

Actors’ Lyric

Lyric in Comedy

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period

Performance and Text

Translation and Imitation

Scholarship and Commemoration

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 28 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace

I Horace’s Use and Adjustment of Greek Meters

II Iambic and Lyric Elements in Horace

III Blending in Horace

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry

Before the Augustans. Roman Engagements with Sappho

Excursus: Dramatic Lyrics, Greek and Roman—an Example from Ennius

Experimentation with Greek Form: Laevius

After the Augustans. Further Experimentation with Metrical Form: Optatian

Seneca’s Reception of Greek Lyric

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar

Receptivity and Return

Pindar in the German Reformation

Neoclassicism and Enthusiasm

Revolutions

Poetics of Translation

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 31 “Anacreon” in America

Introduction

London’s Anacreontic Society

“The Anacreontic Song”

Variations on a Theme

“Adams and Liberty”

Francis Scott Key: “When the Warrior Returns” and “Defense of Fort McHenry”

Conclusions

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North

Classics and Nationhood

Knowledge of Greek in Scotland

Gaelic Poets

Early Writing in Scots, Latin, and English

The Modern Scots Renaissance

Inspiration and Translation: Norman MacCaig and Edwin Morgan

Greek Lyric Reimagined: Robert Crawford

Conclusion

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 33 Sappho and the Feminist Movement: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Suffragettes

Women of the Left Bank

Second Wave Feminism

The Twenty-First Century

FURTHER READING

CHAPTER 34 Anne Carson’s Lyric Temporalities: Desire, Immortality, and Time in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichorus

Desire’s Paradoxical Temporalities in Eros the Bittersweet and If Not, Winter

Refractions of Immortality in Autobiography of Red

Conclusion

FURTHER READING

Notes

CHAPTER 35 Greek Lyric and Pindar in Brazil

Introduction: The Beginnings1

Greek Lyric in Translation in Brazil

Pindar in Brazil

FURTHER READING

PORTUGUESE TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE REFERRED TO IN THIS CHAPTER

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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