The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion To Greek Lyric (2009)
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ISBN: 9780521614764 (paperback)......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS......Page 9
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
Transliteration......Page 22
Introducing Greek lyric......Page 24
The meanings and history of ‘lyric’......Page 25
A varied and ill-defined corpus......Page 28
An incomplete record......Page 30
Genres and categories......Page 33
Reconstruction 1: texts......Page 36
Reconstruction 2: contexts......Page 37
Greek vs. Latin and modern lyric......Page 38
The lyric ‘I’......Page 39
FURTHER READING: GENERAL DISCUSSIONS OF GREEK LYRIC......Page 40
The nature of genre......Page 42
Verse form, genre and performance......Page 44
Songs for gods......Page 45
Songs for humans......Page 51
Genre and symposion......Page 53
FURTHER READING......Page 59
Introduction: the mercenary motive, or, going for a song......Page 60
Fame......Page 65
Pride in place: colonisation poetry and epinikia......Page 66
Elites or not?......Page 71
The political motive: Solon and others......Page 72
Epilogue: panhellenism......Page 76
FURTHER READING......Page 77
Introduction......Page 79
Choral lyric......Page 81
Monodic lyric, elegy, and iambos (poetry for single performers)......Page 87
FURTHER READING......Page 92
Introduction: Human wisdom and poetic expertise......Page 93
Relating to the gods......Page 96
Fate, fortune and morality......Page 100
Building community......Page 104
The symposion – microcosm of the human condition......Page 109
Immortalisation, transformation and ‘play’......Page 111
FURTHER READING......Page 115
5 - BARBARA GRAZIOSI AND JOHANNES HAUBOLD - Greek lyric and early Greek literary history......Page 116
The epic Muses......Page 118
Cohesion and divergence......Page 121
Lyric and epic......Page 124
Lyric and the emergence of new literary genres......Page 129
FURTHER READING......Page 133
Introduction......Page 135
Some pragmatic features: from text to context (and vice versa)......Page 136
Language......Page 141
Language......Page 149
The basics......Page 151
Looking behind the system: Indo-European metre and the rise of the Greek tradition......Page 154
Aeolic verses and strophes......Page 155
Iambic and trochaic metres: Archilochus and Hipponax......Page 157
Archilochus and the epodes: dactyls, iambs, the hexameter and the elegiac distich......Page 158
Dactylo-epitrites in Stesichorus and the metrical inventiveness of Pindar and Bacchylides......Page 161
Greek music in its cultural setting......Page 163
Modes and genera......Page 164
Instruments......Page 165
Metre......Page 166
Music......Page 167
8 - CHRIS CAREY - Iambos......Page 168
Archilochus......Page 171
Semonides......Page 179
Hipponax......Page 181
FURTHER READING......Page 186
Elegos and elegy......Page 187
Elegy as a medium of communication......Page 188
Ionian elegy......Page 190
Tyrtaeus and elegy at Sparta......Page 192
The Megarian symposion (Theognidea)......Page 193
Attic elegy......Page 194
Public elegy......Page 197
Elegy and epigram......Page 198
The functions of elegy......Page 201
Elegiac (and epic) diction......Page 204
Nothing to do with Lesbos? A conclusion about elegiac definition......Page 206
FURTHER READING......Page 207
Introduction......Page 208
Alcman......Page 209
Stesichorus......Page 213
Ibycus......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 221
FURTHER READING......Page 222
11 - DIMITRIOS YATROMANOLAKIS - Alcaeus and Sappho......Page 223
Politics, tradition as ideology, liminality......Page 225
Sappho......Page 233
Paradigms, contexts, songs......Page 235
FURTHER READING......Page 245
Contexts......Page 246
An example......Page 248
Anacreon beyond drink and desire......Page 250
Reperformance......Page 253
Early iconography......Page 254
The Anacreontea......Page 255
FURTHER READING......Page 258
13 - HAYDEN PELLICCIA - Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides......Page 259
How they came to write their poems......Page 260
The survival of the epinikia......Page 266
Simonides......Page 269
Pindar......Page 271
Bacchylides......Page 275
FURTHER READING......Page 280
14 - DIMITRIOS YATROMANOLAKIS - Ancient Greek popular song......Page 282
FURTHER READING......Page 295
15 - ERIC CSAPO AND PETER WILSON - Timotheus the New Musician......Page 296
Modern......Page 297
Popularity in antiquity......Page 298
Music critics......Page 299
Timotheus and tradition......Page 300
Timotheus vs. Sparta......Page 303
The New Musical style......Page 306
Democracy and class struggle......Page 309
Theatre......Page 311
FURTHER READING......Page 312
From performance to edition......Page 314
On the shelves of the Alexandrian Library......Page 315
Classified: Callimachus’ Pinakes and the mystery of the genres......Page 316
The (lost?) Sound of Music: Aristophanes and the colometry of lyric texts......Page 317
Canons of excellence: Aristarchus......Page 319
Kreuzung der Gattungen and polyeideia......Page 320
Epainos and psogos: Callimachus’ new elegy and iambos......Page 324
L’arme e gli amori: Hellenistic elegy on love and war......Page 326
Kammertheater: contexts of performance for learned poetry......Page 327
Teaching the lyric of the past......Page 328
The professionals......Page 331
Musical gifts to heavenly and earthly gods......Page 332
From performance to edition......Page 333
At play with tradition......Page 334
The sanctuary and the stage......Page 335
Predecessors in Rome......Page 336
The big Nine......Page 340
Coherence of the lyric voice......Page 341
Secondary lyric......Page 343
Patronage......Page 344
Coherence and restrictions......Page 345
The Carmen Saeculare......Page 348
Textual performance......Page 349
FURTHER READING......Page 351
18 - PANTELIS MICHELAKIS - Greek lyric from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century......Page 353
Pindar......Page 354
Anacreon......Page 359
Sappho......Page 363
FURTHER READING......Page 367
19 - MARGARET WILLIAMSON - Sappho and Pindar in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries......Page 369
Romantics and Victorians......Page 370
Pindar and the Romantic ode......Page 371
Nineteenth-century Sappho......Page 372
Images of Sappho......Page 373
‘The lyric cry’: poetry as autobiography......Page 375
Tennyson......Page 377
Sappho and nineteenth-century women writers......Page 378
Swinburne......Page 379
Michael Field......Page 380
Aesthetics of the fragment......Page 381
Oxyrhynchus......Page 382
Pound’s Sappho: ‘a poiesis of loss’......Page 383
H.D.......Page 384
Pindar in the twentieth century......Page 385
Twentieth-century Sappho, continued......Page 386
FURTHER READING......Page 387
20 - MICHAEL SILK - Lyric and lyrics: perspectives, ancient and modern......Page 388
CHRONOLOGY OF SELECT MELIC, ELEGIAC AND IAMBIC POETS......Page 401
Critical editions......Page 403
Alcaeus......Page 404
Hipponax......Page 405
Epinikia: General......Page 406
Other Genres......Page 407
Semonides......Page 408
Tyrtaeus......Page 409
General bibliographies......Page 410
GLOSSARY......Page 411
LIST OF WORKS CITED......Page 415