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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review"The volume consists of a detailed introduction and 21 essays arranged into seven parts in terms of theme and time. In size, it is imposing; in scope, it is inspiring." Lawrence Kowerski in BMCR 2021.04.35
Table of ContentsPreface 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
