Greek Lyric and the Sacred : Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 6 / edited by André Lardinois and Lucia Athanassaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanassaki, Lucia, editor.

Lardinois, A. P. M. H., editor.

Series:

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 503.

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 503

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical Studies.

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 6

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Herodotus credits Homer and Hesiod with providing the Greeks with the image of their gods, but Greek lyric had a lot to say about this as well. This book examines the engagement of early Greek lyric poetry with the divine in the light of new scholarly approaches, both to lyric and to Greek religion, and the discovery of new lyric fragments in the last few decades. It focuses on the religious contexts in which lyric poetry was performed, the imagery used for the divine, and the communication between humans and gods expressed in these texts.

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Series Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎Preface

‎List of Figures

‎Note on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations

‎Notes on Contributors

‎Introduction (Athanassaki and Lardinois)

‎Part 1. Sacred Contexts

‎Chapter 1. Dancing before Dawn: The Performance and Ritual Context of Alcman's Partheneion (Hubbard)

‎1. Cultic Context

‎2. Performance

‎Chapter 2. Forms of Melic Poetry as Musical and Ritualistic Acts Referring to the Divine: Neither "Lyric", nor "Sacred" (Calame)

‎1. The New Poems of Sappho and Relationships with the Divine

‎2. Sappho Again: Ritual and Circumstances of Enunciation

‎3. Where Is the "Here"? When Is the "Now"?

‎4. Paean and Dithyramb: Pindar and Bacchylides

‎5. Threnoi and Hymenaioi: Return to Sappho

‎6. The Melic Poem as Ritual Act

‎Chapter 3. Cultic Space and Dithyrambic Performance in Pindar's Fragment 75 (Fanucchi)

‎1. Gods in the agora

‎2. Zeus and Dionysus

‎3. A Performance during the City Dionysia?

‎4. Time and Space

‎5. Conclusions

‎Chapter 4. The Role of Ritual and Monument in Creating Kleos: The Epigram of Alcmaeonides from the Sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios (IG I3 1469 = CEG 302) (Pearson)

‎1. The Topographical and Archaeological Context of the Monument

‎2. Reading and Moving: Other Examples

‎3. How Monuments Generate kleos

‎4. The Performance Context of Alcmaeonides' Epigram

‎Chapter 5. Sacred Space as a Frame for Lyric Occasions: The Cases of Hippolytus at Troezen and of Archilochus at Paros (Nagy)

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‎Chapter 6. Between Delphi and Delos: Paros and Apollo from Archilochus to Pindar (Nobili)

‎1. Archilochus and Pythian Apollo

‎2. Seventh Century BCE: Paros and Delphi.

‎3. Sixth to Fifth Century BCE: Paros and Delos

‎4. Fifth Century BCE: Paros and Athens

‎Part 2. The Fabric and Texture of the Sacred

‎Chapter 7. What Color Is the Pindaric Sacred? (Martin)

‎1. Chart 1: Ten Pindaric Colors and Sacred Associations

‎2. Chart 2: Minimal and Maximal Readings of Color Associations

‎3. Chart 3: Colors Combined

‎Chapter 8. Pindar and the Ecopoetics of Sacred Space (Mars)

‎1. Echo and the Ecology of Praise

‎2. Poetic and Environmental Personae

‎3. Conclusions

‎Chapter 9. The Sacred in the Aesthetic Texture of Song between Female and Male Performance Practice in Lesbos (Bierl)

‎1. A Short Survey of the Sacred in a Mythic-Ritual Poetics of Lyric

‎2. The Sacred in the Archaic Lyric of Sappho: Love, Female Choruses, and Aesthetics

‎3. The Sacred Space as a Symbol of Beauty in Song: Sappho fr. 2

‎4. A Series of Intimate Conversations with Aphrodite: Sappho fr. 1

‎5. Festive Aesthetics about a Wedding of a God-like Couple in Holy Troy

‎6. Alcaeus' Use of the Sacred in a Male, Convivial, Political, and Aggressive Context (frs. 129 and 130B)

‎7. Cursing the Political Rival in the Sacred Shrine and with the Energy of the Gods: Alcaeus fr. 129

‎8. The Exile in the Vicinity of the Sacred Shrine of Messon as Observer of Female Choruses: A Signal to Return to Civic Life

‎9. Conclusion

‎Chapter 10. Narrative Functions of the Muses in Archaic Lyric (Willigers)

‎1. Muses in Lyric Poetry

‎2. Simonides, Plataea Elegy

‎3. Pindar, Olympian 10

‎4. Pindar, Isthmian 5

‎5. Conclusion

‎Part 3. Representations of Human Communication with the Divine

‎Chapter 11. To Seem to Be a God among Men: The Sacred and Poetic Posturing in the Theognidea (Kowerski)

‎1. Symposia, the Sacred, and Poetic Voice

‎2. The Theognidea, the Sacred, and the Heroic Singer.

‎3. Sacred and Sympotic Interactions

‎4. Conclusion

‎Chapter 12. Playing with the Sacred at the Symposion (Casato)

‎1. Pindar

‎2. Archilochus

‎3. Anacreon

‎4. Pindar Again

‎Chapter 13. On Polytheism in Greek Lyric Poetry (Pironti)

‎1. Sappho's "Brothers Song" (fr. 10 Neri): A Poem "Full of Gods"

‎2. A Polytheistic Prayer for the Polis: From the Moirae to the Horae

‎3. Singing for the daimones and Their Leader: The Hymn of Palaikastro

‎4. The Favour of the Gods and the Choice of Eunomia/eunomia: Solon fr. 4

‎Chapter 14. Sappho's Persuasive Prayers (Bachvarova)

‎1. Sappho's Cultural Context

‎2. Ancient Greek Theories of Cognition

‎3. Rhetorical Persuasion

‎4. Persuasive Prayers before Sappho

‎5. Sappho's Persuasive Prayers

‎6. Sappho's Invocations: Tradition and Innovation

‎7. Conclusion

‎Chapter 15. Pindar Fragment 70b: A Literary Archetype of Dionysiac Choreia (Nikolaidou-Arabatzi)

‎1. Euripides' Bacchae

‎2. [Arion] anon. fr. 939 PMG

‎Chapter 16. Ritual Synergy and Intimacy in Nondramatic and Dramatic Choral Lyric: Pindar Fragment 75, Euripides' Cyclops, and Aristophanes' Frogs (Kavoulaki)

‎1. Pindar's Dithyramb for the Athenians (fr. 75)

‎2. Euripides' Cyclops

‎3. Aristophanes' Frogs

‎Chapter 17. How "Sacred" Are the Lyrics of Aristophanes? (Bowie)

‎1. Ritual Humour in Greece and Elsewhere

‎2. Epithalamia and Dionysiac Songs

‎3. Olympian Deities

‎4. Variations with Humour

‎5. Frogs

‎6. A Contrary Case?

‎7. Conclusion: Choruses' Ritual Acts?

‎Chapter 18. Song and/as Sacrifice: On the Sacrificial Pragmatics of Poetry (Sfyroeras)

‎1. From Symbiosis to Convergence

‎2. From Convergence to Analogy: Biomorphic Poetics

‎3. Fleshing out the Ritual Pragmatics of Song

‎Bibliography

‎Index of Passages.

‎Index of Names and Subjects

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-75038-X

OCLC:

1583177233

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004750388 DOI