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Book SynopsisGenre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Trade Review"This impressive volume comes from a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015, and provides several excellent discussions of different approaches to genre in early Greek poetry (essentially from Homer to Euripides). The authors for the most part share a sense that we need to move away from the notion that occasions uncomplicatedly produce genres: we should not seek in or behind archaic and classical Greek song a pre-lapsarian, pre-literary generic system. Most stress that ‘purity’ of genre should not be sought or invoked, but they provide a variety of ways to reconfigure how we think of genre and how attention to genre can help us to read particular texts." - Richard Rawles, University of Edinburgh, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020.10.26
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke and Naomi Weiss Part 1 Keynote Address 1 Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the “Newest Sappho” Gregory Nagy Part 2 Genre, Generification, and Performance 2 Linus: The Rise and Fall of Lyric Genres Andrew Ford 3 Sappho’s Parachoral Monody Timothy Power 4 The Speaking Persona: Ancient Commentators on Choral Performance Francesca Schironi Part 3 Genre Mixing 5 Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric Deborah Steiner 6 Generic Hybridity in Athenian Tragedy Naomi Weiss 7 Athens and Apolline Polyphony in Bacchylides’ Ode 16 Margaret Foster Part 4 Affect, Materiality, and the Body: The Somatics of Genre 8 Is Korybantic Performance a (Lyric) Genre? Mark Griffith 9 Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax Mario Telò 10 Experiencing Elegy: Materiality and Visuality in the Ambracian Polyandrion Seth Estrin 11 Pindar, Paean 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge Sarah Olsen Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
