A companion to Greek lyric / edited by Laura Swift.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swift, Laura, 1979- editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 580 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, making it one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. The papyrological discoveries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have transformed our knowledge of the corpus of Greek lyric, by both expanding the number of texts available, and allowing us access to a range beyond those selected for quotation in later authors. Meanwhile, new methodological approaches to ancient texts have taken the study of lyric beyond the textual and philological handling of fragments. This volume aims to reflect the current state of play in the study of Greek lyric, and showcase the scope and range of approaches to be found in scholarly work in the field. It also seeks to orient the newcomer to the range of contextual and technical information which is needed to engage with the lyric poets, and to work with texts which are mainly preserved as fragments. The volume is divided into sections which explore Greek lyric from a variety of different perspectives. Section one situates Greek lyric in its historical and performative contexts. While performance context is an important factor in all Greek literature, the close relationship of lyric poetry with ritual, communal, and social life makes it particularly closely bound to time, location, and occasion. Section two has a two-fold purpose: first, it aims to give a clear overview of the technical issues that particularly apply to dealing with Greek lyric, and which can pose difficulties to those new to the field. These include the transmission of the corpus and how scholars work with papyri and manuscripts, the language of lyric, and the role of metre and music. Second, the section showcases some of the methodologies that characterise modern approaches to lyric poetry, and that can help us read these texts in new ways. Section three provides a detailed overview of the authors and forms that constitute Greek lyric, from our earliest texts in the seventh century BC through to classical Athens and the Hellenistic period. Finally, Section four offers insights into the rich reception history of Greek lyric. This section begins with two chapters on the crucially important Roman reception of Greek lyric, followed by other chapters on how lyric poetry has influenced and inspired writers in the modern era. The latter is not meant to be an exhaustive study (which would easily fill a Companion volume of its own), but offers rather a selection of current research into where and when lyric has inspired later authors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contexts. The lyric chorus / Lucia Athanassaki

Religion and ritual in early Greek lyric / William Furley

Epic and lyric / Adrian Kelly

Commemorating the athlete / Nigel Nicholson

Aristocracy, aristocratic culture and the symposium / Marek Węcowski

Politics / Jonathan M. Hall

Methodologies and techniques. Papyrology / C. Michael Sampson

Citation and transmission / Tom Phillips

Metre and music / Armand D'Angour

The lyric dialects / Mark de Kreij

Deixis and world building / Evert van Emde Boas

Lyric space : Sappho and Aphrodite's sanctuary / Annette Giesecke

Sappho, performance, and acting fragments / Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Authors and forms. Iambos / Klaus Lennartz

Elegy / Krystyna Bartol

Stesichorus / P. J. Finglass

Alcman / Timothy Power

Sappho / André Lardinois

Alcaeus / Henry Spelman

Ibycus and Anacreon / Ettore Cingano

Solon and Theognis / Ewen Bowie

Simonides / Richard Rawles

Pindar / Christopher Brown

Bacchylides / David Fearn

The new music / Pauline LeVen

Dramatic lyric / Laura Swift

The lyres of Orpheus : the transformations of lyric in the Hellenistic period / A. D. Morrison

Receptions. Greek iambic and lyric in Horace / Andreas T. Zanker

Greek lyric at Rome : before and after Augustan poetry / Tobias Allendorf

The gift of song : German receptions of Pindar / John T. Hamilton

'Anacreon' in America / Patricia Rosenmeyer

Greek lyric : a view from the north / William Allan

Sappho and the feminist movement : twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Marguerite Johnson

Ann Carson's lyric temporalties / Hannah Silverblank

Greek lyric and Pindar in Brazil / Robert de Brose.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119122647

1119122643

9781119122661

111912266X

OCLC:

1268122894