Overview

"No area of ancient Greek literature has been more studied over the last few decades than ""lyric poetry"", which conventionally includes poetry sung by choruses or soloists accompanied by the lyre or aulos (flute). Besides its literary significance, lyric poetry is also a major resource for understanding the culture and history of Archaic Greece, especially the seventh and sixth centuries BC. This volume brings together eighteen of the best and most influential essays to be published on lyric poetry over the last four decades, three of which are here translated into English for the first time. Authored by experts on Greek lyric poetry from the UK, Europe, and the USA - including Gregory Nagy, Claude Calame, and Malcolm Davies, among several others - the papers cover a wide range of general themes, ranging from studies of genre and the poetic persona to performance and interpretation, and also offer illuminating case studies of individual poets, from Alcman and Alkaios to Sappho and Simonides. Collated here in a single volume and prefaced by a thorough and up-to-date synoptic introduction by the volume editor, himself a recognised authority on the subject, the plurality of critical voices and perspectives offers both scholars and students an accessible yet comprehensive and insightful overview of the field."

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Author:   Ian Rutherford (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.728kg
ISBN:  

9780199216192

ISBN 10:   0199216193
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   23 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Frontmatter List of Abbreviations 0: Ian Rutherford: Introduction Part A. General Themes 1: Claude Calame: Greek Lyric Poetry, a Non-Existent Genre? 2: Malcolm Davies: Monody, Choral Lyric, and the Tyranny of the Hand-Book 3: Wolfgang Rösler: Real Persona or Poetic Persona? The Interpretation of the ""I"" in Ancient Greek Lyric 4: Gregory Nagy: Genre and Occasion 5: E. L. Bowie: Early Greek Elegy, Symposium, and Public Festival 6: Simon Slings: Symposium and Interpretation: Elegy as Group-Song and the So-Called Awakening Individual 7: Andrew Ford: The Genre of Genres: Paeans and Paian in Early Greek Poetry Part B. Studies on Specific Poets 8: E. Robbins: Alcman's Partheneion: Legend and Choral Ceremony 9: Bernd Seidensticker: Archilochus and Odysseus 10: Ralph M. Rosen: Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos 11: Robin Osborne: The Use of Abuse: Semonides 7 12: Leslie Kurke: Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise 13: Andre Lardinois: Keening Sappho: Female Speech Genres in Sappho's Poetry 14: Anne Burnett: Jocasta in the West: The Lille Stesichorus 15: Deborah Steiner: Nautical Matters: Hesiod's Nautilia and Ibycus Fragment 282PMG 16: Giovanni Cerri: The Significance of the ""Sphregis"" in Theognis and the Safeguarding of Textual Authenticity in Antiquity 17: Margaret Williamson: Eros the Blacksmith: Performing Masculinity in Anakreon's Love Lyrics 18: Glenn W. Most: Simonides' Ode to Scopas in Contexts Endmatter General Bibliography Acknowledgements Index"

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almost all of these papers are either especially interesting or important. * Demetrios Yatromanolakes, Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina *

Author Information

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Educated at Oxford, he has held academic posts in both the UK and USA and beyond, including as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York from 2013 to 2014 and at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul in 2017. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and religion, cultural contact and comparison between Greece and other ancient cultures, and ancient Anatolia.

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