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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.
List of contents
Abbreviations and Standard Editions x
Preface xviii
Section 1 Contexts 1
1 The Lyric Chorus 3
Lucia Athanassaki
2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric 19
William Furley
3 Epic and Lyric 34
Adrian Kelly
4 Commemorating the Athlete 47
Nigel Nicholson
5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium 62
Marek W'cowski
6 Politics 76
Jonathan M. Hall
Section 2 Methodologies and Techniques 89
7 Papyrology 91
C. Michael Sampson
8 Citation and Transmission 119
Tom Phillips
9 Meter and Music 132
Armand D'Angour
10 The Lyric Dialects 142
Mark de Kreij
11 Deixis and World Building 162
Evert van Emde Boas
12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite's Sanctuary 176
Annette Giesecke
13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments 192
Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Section 3 Authors and Forms 205
14 Iambos 207
Klaus Lennartz
15 Elegy 221
Krystyna Bartol
16 Stesichorus 234
P. J. Finglass
17 Alcman 245
Timothy Power
18 Sappho 261
André Lardinois
19 Alcaeus 275
Henry Spelman
20 Ibycus and Anacreon 290
Ettore Cingano
21 Solon and Theognis 303
Ewen Bowie
22 Simonides 317
Richard Rawles
23 Pindar 333
Christopher Brown
24 Bacchylides 346
David Fearn
25 The New Music 362
Pauline A. LeVen
26 Dramatic Lyric 377
Laura Swift
27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period 389
A. D. Morrison
Section 4 Receptions 405
28 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace 407
Andreas T. Zanker
29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry 424
Tobias Allendorf
30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar 437
John T. Hamilton
31 "Anacreon" in America 453
Patricia Rosenmeyer
32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North 467
William Allan
33 Sappho and the Feminist Movement: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 484
Marguerite Johnson
34 Anne Carson's Lyric Temporalities: Desire, Immortality, and Time in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichorus 496
Hannah Silverblank
35 Greek Lyric and Pindar in Brazil 512
Robert de Brose
Bibliography 526
Index 573
About the author
Laura Swift is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. The author of
Archilochus: The Poems, Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts, The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric, and
Euripides: Ion, she also works with theatre practitioners on how to represent and stage fragmentary Greek poetry as a contemporary art form.
Summary
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.
