Authorship and Greek song : authority, authenticity, and performance / edited by Egbert J. Bakker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bakker, Egbert J., editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 402.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.

Studies in archaic and classical Greek song ; v. 3.

Mnemosyne, Supplements, 0169-8958 ; Volume 402

Studies in Archaic and classical Greek song ; vol. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek poetry.

Greek poetry--Authorship--Congresses.

Oral interpretation of poetry--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Oral tradition--Greece--Congresses.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Authorship and Greek Song is a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of authorship in the song culture of Ancient Greece. In this cultural context the idea of the poet as author of his poems is complicated by the fact that poetry in archaic Greece circulated as songs performed for a variety of audiences, both local and “global” (Panhellenic). The volume’s chapters discuss questions about the importance of the singers/performers; the nature of the performance occasion; the status of the poet; the authority of the poet/author and/or that of the performer; and the issues of authenticity arising when poems are composed under a given poet’s name. The volume offers discussions of major authors such as Pindar, Sappho, and Theognis.

Contents:

Front Matter / Egbert J. Bakker

Introduction / Egbert J. Bakker

The Construction of Authority in Pindar’s Isthmian 2 in Performance / Eva Stehle

Voice and Worship / Christopher Carey

Crooked Competition: The Performance and Poetics of Skolia / Richard P. Martin

Placing the Poet: The Topography of Authorship / Nicholas Boterf

Trust and Fame: The Seal of Theognis / Egbert J. Bakker

Authenticity and Autochthonous Traditions in Archaic and Hellenistic Lyric Poetry / Jacqueline Klooster

Embedded Song and Poetic Authority in Pindar and Bacchylides / Sarah J. Harden

Narratorial Authority and Its Subversion in Archilochus / Laura Swift

The Invention of Stesichorus: Hesiod, Helen, and the Muse / Jesús Carruesco

On the Antagonism between Divine and Human Performer in Archaic Greek Poetics / Vayos Liapis

“Newly Written Buds:” Archaic and Classical Pseudepigrapha in Meleager’s Garland / Irene Peirano Garrison

Sappho or Alcaeus: Authors and Genres of Archaic Hymns / Leanna Boychenko

Which Sappho? The Case Study of the Cologne Papyrus / Elisabetta Pitotto and Amedeo A. Raschieri

Indexes / Egbert J. Bakker.

Notes:

Selected papers presented at a conference entitled "Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity in Archaic and Classical Greek Song," which was held June 6-9, 2011 at Yale University, organized by the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004339705

90-04-33970-1