Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models

Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41142-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 428, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Genre 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Foster, Margaret

Kurke, Leslie

Weiss, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 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

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Foster is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University. Her work focuses on archaic and classical Greek poetry and cultural history. She is the author of The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece (University of California Press, 2018).

Leslie Kurke is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on Greek literature and cultural history; her most recent book (co-authored with Richard Neer) is Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).

Naomi Weiss is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. She has published widely on ancient Greek theater and performance culture, and is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (University of California Press, 2018).

Contributors are: Seth Estrin, Andrew Ford, Margaret Foster, Mark Griffith, Gregory Nagy, Sarah Olsen, Timothy Power, Francesca Schironi, Deborah Steiner, Mario Telò, Naomi Weiss.