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A Companion to Greek Lyric
Laura Swift (Edited by), L Swift (Author)
9781119122623, Wiley
Hardback, published 7 June 2022
608 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg
"This new companion provides a comprehensive survey of key information and perspectives on Greek lyric in an accessible language. In the discussions, excessively detailed and subtle scholarly questions are generally avoided, as is fitting for a companion. Its 35 knowledgeable chapters will meet the expectations and needs of Classics students who embark on an in-depth study of Greek lyric."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Discover the power of Greek lyric with essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field today Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, resulting in this topic becoming one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. In A Companion to Greek Lyric, renowned Classical scholar Laura Swift delivers a collection of essays by international experts and emerging voices that offers up-to-date approaches on the methodology, contexts, and reception of Greek lyric from the archaic to the Hellenistic period. This edited volume includes detailed analyses of the poets themselves, as well as a reflection of the current state of play in the study of Greek lyric. It showcases the scope and range of approaches to be found in scholarly work in the field. Newcomers to the subject will benefit from the range of contextual and technical information included that allows for a more effective engagement with the lyric poets. Readers will also enjoy: Perfect for undergraduate and master’s students taking courses on Greek lyric or survey courses on classical literature, A Companion to Greek Lyric also belongs in the libraries of students of English or Comparative Literature seeking an authoritative resource for Greek lyric.
Abbreviations and Standard Editions x Preface xviii Section 1 Contexts 1 1 The Lyric Chorus 3 2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric 19 3 Epic and Lyric 34 4 Commemorating the Athlete 47 5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium 62 6 Politics 76 Section 2 Methodologies and Techniques 89 7 Papyrology 91 8 Citation and Transmission 119 9 Meter and Music 132 10 The Lyric Dialects 142 11 Deixis and World Building 162 12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite’s Sanctuary 176 13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments 192 Section 3 Authors and Forms 205 14 Iambos 207 15 Elegy 221 16 Stesichorus 234 17 Alcman 245 18 Sappho 261 19 Alcaeus 275 20 Ibycus and Anacreon 290 21 Solon and Theognis 303 22 Simonides 317 23 Pindar 333 24 Bacchylides 346 25 The New Music 362 26 Dramatic Lyric 377 27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period 389 Section 4 Receptions 405 28 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace 407 29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry 424 30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar 437 31 “Anacreon” in America 453 32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North 467 33 Sappho and the Feminist Movement: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 484 34 Anne Carson’s Lyric Temporalities: Desire, Immortality, and Time in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichorus 496 35 Greek Lyric and Pindar in Brazil 512 Bibliography 526 Index 573
Lucia Athanassaki
William Furley
Adrian Kelly
Nigel Nicholson
Marek Węcowski
Jonathan M. Hall
C. Michael Sampson
Tom Phillips
Armand D’Angour
Mark de Kreij
Evert van Emde Boas
Annette Giesecke
Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Klaus Lennartz
Krystyna Bartol
P. J. Finglass
Timothy Power
André Lardinois
Henry Spelman
Ettore Cingano
Ewen Bowie
Richard Rawles
Christopher Brown
David Fearn
Pauline A. LeVen
Laura Swift
A. D. Morrison
Andreas T. Zanker
Tobias Allendorf
John T. Hamilton
Patricia Rosenmeyer
William Allan
Marguerite Johnson
Hannah Silverblank
Robert de Brose
Subject Areas: History [HB]
