Greek lyric / edited by Ian Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rutherford, Ian, 1959- editor.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 479 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume presents a selection of papers published in the last few decades on the main types of Greek lyric poetry (melic, elegiac, and iambic), excluding Pindar and Bacchylides" -- preface.

Contents:

Part A General Themes

1 Greek Lyric Poetry, a Non-Existent Genre? p. 33 / Claude Calame

2 Monody, Choral Lyric, and the Tyranny of the Handbook p. 61 / Malcolm Davies

3 Real Persona or Poetic Persona? The Interpretation of the "I" in Ancient Greek Lyric p. 80 / Wolfgang Rösier

4 Genre and Occasion p. 94 / Gregory Nagy

5 Early Greek Elegy, Symposium, and Public Festival p. 110 / E. L. Bowie

6 Symposion and Interpretation: Elegy as Group Song and the So-Called Awakening Individual p. 150 / Simon Slings

7 The Genre of Genres: Paeans and Paian in Early Greek Poetry p. 166 / Andrew Ford

Part B Studies On Specific Poets

8 Alcman's Partheneion: Legend and Choral Ceremony p. 189 / E. Robbins

9 Archilochus and Odysseus p. 203 / Bernd Seidensticker

10 Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos p. 221 / Ralph M. Rosen

11 The Use of Abuse: Semonides 7 p. 236 / Robin Osborne

12 Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise p. 260 / Leslie Kurke

13 Keening Sappho: Female Speech Genres in Sappho's Poetry p. 286 / André Lardinois

14 Jocasta in the West: The Lille Stesichorus p. 309 / Anne Burnett

15 Nautical Matters: Hesiod's Nautilia and Ibycus Fragment 282 PMG p. 368 / Deborah Steiner

16 The Significance of the "Sphregis" in Theognis and the Safeguarding of Textual Authenticity in Antiquity p. 380 / Giovanni Cerri

17 Eros the Blacksmith: Performing Masculinity in Anakreon's Love Lyrics p. 397 / Margaret Williamson

18 Simonides' Ode to Scopas in Contexts p. 412 / Glenn W. Most.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-469) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199216193

9780199216192

OCLC:

1090392615