Drama and performance in Hellenistic poetry / edited by M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harder, Annette, editor.

Regtuit, R. F. (Remco F.), editor.

Wakker, G. C., editor.

William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

Series:

Hellenistica Groningana ; v. 23.

Hellenistica Groningana ; 23

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Greek drama--History and criticism.

Greek drama.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--Study and teaching.

Theater--Greece--History and criticism.

Theater.

Greece.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 344 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Language Note:

Contributions in English with 1 in French.

Summary:

This volume is devoted to aspects of performance in Hellenistic poetry. This theme is approached from various angles. Although drama has long been regarded as typical of fifth century Athens, there is an increasing awareness among classical scholars of the importance of drama also for the Hellenistic period. In that period too drama was still written and performed, but at the same time it also was an important object of study and a source of inspiration for works in other genres, such as the epic of Apollonius Rhodius, for new literary forms like the idylls of Theocritus or the mimiambs of Herodas, or for literary experiments such as the extended messenger speech in the Alexandra of Lycophron. Besides, performance was never restricted to drama, but from the archaic period onwards was essential to the presentation of poetry to an audience and thus remained an integral part of Greek cultural life in all periods, also in times of increasing literacy like the Hellenistic period. Therefore in this volume also epic and didactic poetry as well as shorter works from, e.g., a cultic, ritual or sympotic sphere have been studied from the point of view of performance. The various articles show that the focus on performance is a fruitful perspective for looking at Hellenistic poetry.

Contents:

Preface / Annette Harder

The motif of paraclausithyron as hint of performance in the Hellenistic poetry / Sofia Belioti

Drama, performance and authorial self-representation in Herodas Mimaimb 8 / Barnaby Chersterton

The performance life of the Hellenistic period through inscriptions : the case study of Delphi and Delos / Angela Cinalli

Y a-t-il des modalités de la performance vocale féminine dans la poésie hellénistique? : une parole contrainte / Christophe Cusset

The poetics of lamentation : performances and ritual in Bion's eoitah on Adonis / Andreas Fountoulakis

Rethinking 'mimetic poetry' and Callymachus' hymn to Apollo / Adrian Gramps

Enacting drama : Herod 1 and A.P.V. 181 (ascl. 25, gow-page) / David Kutzko

Watching tragedy in Lycophron's Alexandra / Katherine Molesworth

Silencing Orpheus : the fiction of performance in Apollonius' Argonautica / Jackie Murry

The shadow of Aristophanes : Hellenistic poetry's reception of comic poets / Thomas J. Nelson

Spectators-in-performance in Theocritus' adoniazusae / Maria Papadopoulou

Mimeticism. performance and re-performance in Callimachus' hymn to Apollo and inscribed paians / Alan Sheppard

Reading and performing didactic poetry in the Hellenistic period / Kathryn Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

ISBN:

9789042936546

9042936541

OCLC:

1055457459