Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination

Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Bowie: Introduction......Page 10
Nicholas Richardson: Reflections of choral song in early hexameter poetry......Page 24
1. Alcman fr. 1 PMGF = fr. 3 Calame: the text......Page 42
2. Some introductory issues: myth and chorus......Page 44
3. Agido and Hagesichora......Page 51
4. ταὶ Πεληάδες γὰρ ἇμιν … μάχονται......Page 53
5. Myths of abduction......Page 55
6. μάχονται (again)......Page 56
7. Sirens and Harpies......Page 58
8. Agido and Hagesichora (again)......Page 65
9. Sirens (again)......Page 66
10. The ritual: time and recipient......Page 68
11. Conclusions......Page 71
1. In the Bronze Décor......Page 76
Acroteria......Page 80
Wings and Things......Page 82
‘Caryatids’ and Incipient Chorality......Page 84
Cyberchorus!......Page 86
Dancing Architecture......Page 87
Daedalus and Choral Poetics......Page 89
Twinkle Toes......Page 91
Epinician Choral Statues......Page 94
Dancing Machines......Page 95
Do the Robot......Page 96
3. Sublimes Terrible and Tolerable......Page 98
Too Much Voice......Page 100
Strange Attractions......Page 107
The Performing Chorus: Two Hypotheses......Page 110
Glimpses of the Delphides......Page 114
Choral Voice and Choral Object......Page 116
Chorus, City, Κόσμος......Page 119
5. Conclusion......Page 121
1. The ‘paradoxical’ ego in Pindar’s Epinicians......Page 124
2. ‘Who speaks?’ and spatio-temporal deixis......Page 126
3. Bacchylides, a ‘monodic poet’?......Page 128
4. Sphragides - signatures......Page 135
5. Enunciative references to a choral performance......Page 137
5. A polyphonic melic ego......Page 146
1. Introduction......Page 148
2. Alcman, biography and choral eros......Page 149
3. Erotic expression: poet and chorus......Page 152
4. Later choral poetry and ‘first person problems’......Page 155
5. Erotic Praise in Ibycus......Page 158
6. Conclusions: praise and the performance of desire......Page 161
André P.M.H. Lardinois: The parrhesia of young female choruses in Ancient Greece......Page 170
1. Introduction......Page 182
2. A compressed preview of the text of Ode 13 of Bacchylides, based on the edition of Maehler 1982......Page 184
3. Selective translation and commentary......Page 187
4. The argument......Page 207
David Fearn: Τhe Ceians and their choral lyric: Athenian, epichoric and pan-Hellenic perspectives......Page 216
1. Bacchylides and the Athenians......Page 217
2. Ceian Ethnicity and Political Identity: a Federalist Poetics?......Page 226
3. Conclusions......Page 242
Lucia Athanassaki: Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar's Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo......Page 244
1. Encomia for exiles: Praise variations......Page 247
2. Downplaying ostentation......Page 252
i. The horses of the Alcmaeonids on the East Pediment......Page 254
ii. Athens as a sculptural prooemion......Page 258
i. Dancing under the eye of Apollo......Page 263
ii. Alcmaeonid sympotic songs......Page 266
5. Ritual, memory, and the poetics of reconciliation......Page 271
1. Introduction: some possibilities of epinician performance and funding......Page 278
2. Hestian ten polin......Page 287
Olympian 7......Page 292
Fr. 122 Maehler......Page 298
Nemean 11......Page 302
Fr. 94b Maehler......Page 304
Nemean 3......Page 306
3. Overview of hestian ten polin......Page 308
4. Hestian ten panegyrin......Page 310
5. Concluding remarks......Page 314
6. Afterward: epinician and hero cult?......Page 318
Andrew D. Morrison: Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar’s intersecting audiences......Page 320
Jenny Strauss Clay: Olympians 1–3: A song cycle?......Page 346
Thomas Hubbard: The dissemination of Pindar’s non-epinician choral lyric......Page 356
Athena Kavoulaki: Choral self-awareness: on the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus’ Supplices......Page 374
1. The Aeschylean and Euripidean suppliant choruses......Page 375
2. στασίαρχος, στάσις, στόλος: an examination of terms and action......Page 380
3. Ceremonial entry and self-awareness of ritual authority......Page 391
4. Ritual authority and negotiating power......Page 397
1. Introduction......Page 400
Epinikion in the first stasimon......Page 403
Heracles and Eros as athletes......Page 406
3. Heracles in epinikion......Page 408
Bacchylides 5: a tragic Heracles?......Page 412
4. Epinician and tragic worlds......Page 414
Apotheosis and heroism......Page 415
Heracles’ homecoming and the failure of nostos......Page 418
4. Conclusion......Page 421
1. Preliminary remarks: recent research on the chorus......Page 424
2. Alcman's reception in Athens and inter-chorality......Page 426
3. The plot of Lysistrata and the role of the chorus......Page 428
4. The exodos......Page 432
5. Conclusion......Page 443
Chris Carey: Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria......Page 446
Appendix: key comic references to and citations of lyric......Page 466
Bibliography......Page 470
List of Contributors......Page 508
Index of proper names and subjects......Page 512
Index locorum......Page 552