The reception of Greek lyric poetry in the ancient world : transmission, canonization and paratext / edited by Bruno Currie, Ian Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Currie, Bruno, editor.

Rutherford, Ian, 1959- editor.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series.

Historical Materialism Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek poetry.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Summary:

In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attention is given to the poets Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Timotheus. Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace’s commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.

Contents:

Preface Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations Notes on Contributors

1 The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization, and Paratext / Bruno Currie and Ian Rutherford

Part 1 Transmission

2 New Philology and the Classics: Accounting for Variation in the Textual Transmission of Greek Lyric Poetry / André Lardinois

3 Tyrtaeus the Lawgiver: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus on Tyrtaeus fr. 4 / Eveline van Hilten-Rutten

Part 2 Canons

4 On the Shaping of the Lyric Canon in Athens / Gregory Nagy

5 Melic Poets and Melic Forms in the Comedies of Aristophanes: Poetic Genres and the Creation of a Canon / Claude Calame

6 Structuring the Genre: The Fifth- and Fourth-Century Authors on Elegy and Elegiac Poets / Krystyna Bartol

Part 3 Lyric in the Peripatetics

7 The Peripatetics and the Transmission of Lyric / Theodora A. Hadjimichael

8 The Self-Revealing Poet: Lyric Poetry and Cultural History in the Peripatetic School / Elsa Bouchard

Part 4 Early Reception

9 Lyric Reception and Sophistic Literarity in Timotheus’ / Persae / David Fearn

10 “Total Reception”: Stesichorus as Revenant in Plato’s / Phaedrus (with a New Stesichorean Fragment?) / Andrea Capra

11 Indirect Tradition on Sappho’s / kertomia / Maria Kazanskaya

Part 5 Reception in Roman poetry

12 Alcaeus’ / stasiotica : Catullan and Horatian Readings / Ewen Bowie

13 Pindar, Paratexts, and Poetry: Architectural Metaphors in Pindar and Roman Poets (Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Statius) / Gregor Bitto

Part 6 Second Sophistic Contexts

14 Sympotic Sappho? The Recontextualization of Sappho’s Verses in Athenaeus / Stefano Caciagli

15 A Sophisticated / hetaira at Table: Athenaeus’ Sappho / Renate Schlesier

16 Solon and the Democratic Biographical Tradition / Jessica Romney

17 Strategies of Quoting Solon’s Poetry in Plutarch’s / Life of Solon / Jacqueline Klooster

18 Playing with Terpander & Co.: Lyric, Music, and Politics in Aelius Aristides’ / To the Rhodians: Concerning Concord / Francesca Modini

Part 7 Scholarship

19 Historiography and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship / Tom Phillips

20 Poem-Titles in Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides / Enrico Emanuele Prodi

21 / Ita dictum accipe : Pomponius Porphyrio on Early Greek Lyric Poetry in Horace / Johannes Breuer

22 Pindar and His Commentator Eustathius of Thessalonica / Arlette Neumann-Hartmann

Index of Passages General Index.

Notes:

Most of the chapters in this volume were originally presented at a conference organized by Oxford University and Reading University under the auspices of the Network of Archaic Greek Song at the University of Reading in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41452-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004414525 DOI