A History of Alcman's Early Reception : female-voiced nightingales / by Vasiliki Kousoulini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kousoulini, Vasiliki, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcman--Criticism and interpretation.

Alcman.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vi, 139 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Castle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This book constructs a history of Alcman's early reception from the Archaic times until the Hellenistic period, from the composition of his poetry until its first attested systematic edition, taking into consideration the existence of a tradition of partheneia and its implications. Can it be suggested that the emerging book culture killed the ""song culture""? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of an archaic genre (partheneia) and regarded as a historical figure? This book answers such questions, arguing that the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, in.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Exploring the Biographical Tradition p. 13

1) The Name of the Poet

2) Alcman and the Canon

3) Origin

4) Date

5) Poetry and Life: a Common Biographical Fallacy

6) Poetic Genres and Classification of Poems

7) Novelties and Characteristics of his Poetry

8) Dialect

9) Autobiographical References

Chapter 2 Seeing Alcman: The Iconographical Evidence of Alcman's Ancient Reception p. 33

1) Literary Evidence of Alcman's Artistic Depiction

a) Tomb

b) Statue

2) Extant Portrait of Alcman

Chapter 3 Alcman and his Text p. 39

1) Alcman's Partheneia in the "Song Culture"

c) Myths

d) Alcman's Partheneia: A Reading into their Genre

2) Alcman's other Songs

a) Paean

b) "Sympotic" Songs?

c) "Dionysiac" Poems

Chapter 4 The Classical Alcman or Alcman the "Classic" p. 59

1) Athenian Responses to the Tradition of Partheneia

a) Partheneia in Attic Drama

b) Athenian Partheneia

2) Alcman the Classic?

a) Alcman's "Oral Songbook" Revisited

b) Non-Athenian Reception

3) Writing down Alcman

Chapter 5 The Hellenistic Alcman p. 83

1) Hellenistic Partheneia

a) Reperforming Alcman

b) Lyrica Adespota

c) Alcman's Partheneia and Women Poets

2) Alcman in Hellenistic Scholarship

a) Sparta and Athens

b) Alexandria

c) Pergamon

3) Alcman in Callimachus, Apollonius and Theocritus

a) Callimachus

b) Apollonius

c) Theocritus

Chapter 6 Conclusions or Reconstructing Alcman p. 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-136) and index.

ISBN:

9781527531666

152753166X

OCLC:

1090926402

Publisher Number:

99984145983