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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Swift, Laura, 1979- editor. Title: A companion to Greek lyric / edited by Laura Swift. Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022. | Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world | Includes bibliographical references and index. | 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 We.cowski -- Politics / Jonathan M. Hall -- Methodol gies 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 / Andre. 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. Identifiers: LCCN 2021021056 (print) | LCCN 2021021057 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119122623 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119122647 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119122654 (epub) | ISBN 9781119122661 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Greek poetry--History and criticism. | Lyric poetry--History and criticism. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Essays. Classification: LCC PA3092 .C65 2022 (print) | LCC PA3092 (ebook) | DDC 881.009--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021056 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021057
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Contents
1 Cover
5 Abbreviations and Standard Editions
7 Preface
8 SECTION 1 Contexts 1 The Lyric Chorus 2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric 3 Epic and Lyric 4 Commemorating the Athlete 5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium 6 Politics
9 SECTION 2 Methodologies and Techniques 7 Papyrology 8 Citation and Transmission 9 Meter and Music 10 The Lyric Dialects 11 Deixis and World Building 12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite’s Sanctuary 13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments
10 SECTION 3 Authors and Forms 14 Iambos 15 Elegy 16 Stesichorus 17 Alcman 18 Sappho 19 Alcaeus 20 Ibycus and Anacreon 21 Solon and Theognis 22 Simonides 23 Pindar 24 Bacchylides 25 The New Music 26 Dramatic Lyric 27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period
11 SECTION 4 RECEPTIONS 28 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace 29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry 30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar 31 “Anacreon” in America 32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North