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A companion to Greek lyric / edited by Laura Swift.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022.
©2022
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xix, 580 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
PA3092 .C65 2022
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Subject(s)
Greek poetry
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History and criticism
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Lyric poetry
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History and criticism
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Editor
Swift, Laura, 1979-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Literary criticism
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Series
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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Summary note
"Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, making it one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. The papyrological discoveries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have transformed our knowledge of the corpus of Greek lyric, by both expanding the number of texts available, and allowing us access to a range beyond those selected for quotation in later authors. Meanwhile, new methodological approaches to ancient texts have taken the study of lyric beyond the textual and philological handling of fragments. This volume aims to reflect the current state of play in the study of Greek lyric, and showcase the scope and range of approaches to be found in scholarly work in the field. It also seeks to orient the newcomer to the range of contextual and technical information which is needed to engage with the lyric poets, and to work with texts which are mainly preserved as fragments. The volume is divided into sections which explore Greek lyric from a variety of different perspectives. Section one situates Greek lyric in its historical and performative contexts. While performance context is an important factor in all Greek literature, the close relationship of lyric poetry with ritual, communal, and social life makes it particularly closely bound to time, location, and occasion. Section two has a two-fold purpose: first, it aims to give a clear overview of the technical issues that particularly apply to dealing with Greek lyric, and which can pose difficulties to those new to the field. These include the transmission of the corpus and how scholars work with papyri and manuscripts, the language of lyric, and the role of metre and music. Second, the section showcases some of the methodologies that characterise modern approaches to lyric poetry, and that can help us read these texts in new ways. Section three provides a detailed overview of the authors and forms that constitute Greek lyric, from our earliest texts in the seventh century BC through to classical Athens and the Hellenistic period. Finally, Section four offers insights into the rich reception history of Greek lyric. This section begins with two chapters on the crucially important Roman reception of Greek lyric, followed by other chapters on how lyric poetry has influenced and inspired writers in the modern era. The latter is not meant to be an exhaustive study (which would easily fill a Companion volume of its own), but offers rather a selection of current research into where and when lyric has inspired later authors"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Contexts. The lyric chorus / Lucia Athanassaki
Religion and ritual in early Greek lyric / William Furley
Epic and lyric / Adrian Kelly
Commemorating the athlete / Nigel Nicholson
Aristocracy, aristocratic culture and the symposium / Marek Węcowski
Politics / Jonathan M. Hall
Methodologies and techniques. Papyrology / C. Michael Sampson
Citation and transmission / Tom Phillips
Metre and music / Armand D'Angour
The lyric dialects / Mark de Kreij
Deixis and world building / Evert van Emde Boas
Lyric space : Sappho and Aphrodite's sanctuary / Annette Giesecke
Sappho, performance, and acting fragments / Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Authors and forms. Iambos / Klaus Lennartz
Elegy / Krystyna Bartol
Stesichorus / P. J. Finglass
Alcman / Timothy Power
Sappho / André Lardinois
Alcaeus / Henry Spelman
Ibycus and Anacreon / Ettore Cingano
Solon and Theognis / Ewen Bowie
Simonides / Richard Rawles
Pindar / Christopher Brown
Bacchylides / David Fearn
The new music / Pauline LeVen
Dramatic lyric / Laura Swift
The lyres of Orpheus : the transformations of lyric in the Hellenistic period / A. D. Morrison
Receptions. Greek iambic and lyric in Horace / Andreas T. Zanker
Greek lyric at Rome : before and after Augustan poetry / Tobias Allendorf
The gift of song : German receptions of Pindar / John T. Hamilton
'Anacreon' in America / Patricia Rosenmeyer
Greek lyric : a view from the north / William Allan
Sappho and the feminist movement : twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Marguerite Johnson
Ann Carson's lyric temporalties / Hannah Silverblank
Greek lyric and Pindar in Brazil / Robert de Brose.
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ISBN
9781119122623 (hardcover)
1119122627 (hardcover)
LCCN
2021021056
OCLC
1267403801
Other standard number
40031213169
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