Archaic and classical choral song : performance, politics and dissemination / edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Bowie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanassaki, Lucia, 1957-

Bowie, Ewen

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 10.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Greek poetry.

Greek language--Metrics and rhythmics.

Greek language.

Greek language--Accents and accentuation.

Drama--Chorus (Greek drama).

Drama.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

viii, 562 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2011]

Summary:

All but one of the 17 papers are from an international conference at Rethymnon, Crete, in May 2007, and that one from the inaugural meeting of the Network for the Study of the Archaic and Classical Greek Song during June 2008 in Oxford, England. Focusing here on choral song, classicists, philologists, and other scholars discuss such topics as Alcman's first Partheneion and the song the Sirens sang, the parrhesia of young female choruses in ancient Greece, a second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides, Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai, and choral self-awareness in the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus; Supplices. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Reflections of choral song in early hexameter poetry / Nicholas Richardson Richardson, Nicholas 15

Alcman's first Partheneion and the song the Sirens sang / Ewen Bowie Bowie, Ewen 33

Cyberchorus: Pindar's Κ η λ η δ ο ν ε ς and the aura of the artificial / Timothy Power Power, Timothy 67

Enunciative fiction and poetic performance Choral voices in Bacchylides' epinicians / Claude Calame Calame, Claude 115

Eros and praise in early Greek lyric / Richard Rawles Rawles, Richard 139

The parrhesia of young female choruses in Ancient Greece / André P.M.H. Lardinois Lardinois, André P.M.H. 161

A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides / Gregory Nagy Nagy, Gregory 173

The Ceians and their choral lyric: Athenian, epichoric and pan-Hellenic perspectives / David Fearn Fearn, David 207

Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar's Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo / Lucia Athanassaki Athanassaki, Lucia 235

Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus / Bruno Currie Currie, Bruno 269

Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar's intersecting audiences / Andrew D. Morrison Morrison, Andrew D. 311

Olympians 1-3: A song cycle? / Jenny Strauss Clay Clay, Jenny Strauss

The dissemination of Pindar's non-epinician choral lyric / Thomas Hubbard Hubbard, Thomas

Choral self-awareness: on the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus' Supplices / Athena Kavoulaki Kavoulaki, Athena

Epinician and tragic Worlds: the case of Sophocles' Trachiniae / Laura A. Swift Swift, Laura A. 391

Alcman at the end of Aristophanes' Lysistrata: ritual interchorality / Anton Bierl Bierl, Anton 415

Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria / Chris Carey Carey, Chris 437.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

3110254018

9783110254013

OCLC:

694238167

Publisher Number:

99945108674