Iambus and Elegy

New Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-968974-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

For over two centuries-starting with the earliest surviving iambic poet and elegist, Archilochus-elegy and iambus attracted some of the finest poetic talents in Greek history and played a major role in public and private life, surviving as living forms into the fourth century BC. The study of these poetic forms has been transformed in recent years by new papyrological finds, yet historically scholarly attention has tended to focus predominantly on Greek lyric poetry. This edited collection provides the first comprehensive exploration devoted specifically to iambus and elegy, offering an important insight into the key issues within current research on the genres. Chapters by leading international experts in the field examine the forms from a broad range of perspectives-addressing questions of genre definition, performance and context, authorial voice and style, interactions and intertexts, and the texts' transmission and reception-and provide a solid foundation for future research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swift, Laura

Carey, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Contributors

- Introduction

- I: Poetry in Performance

- 1: Ewen Bowie: Cultic Contexts for Elegiac Performance

- 2: Cecilia Nobili: Choral Elegy

- 3: Deborah Boedeker: Coarse Poetics: Listening to Hipponax

- 4: Don Lavigne: Archilochus and Homer in the Rhapsodic Context

- II: Charting Genre, Creating Traditions

- 5: Andrea Rotstein: The Ancient Literary History of Iambos

- 6: Chris Carey: Mapping Iambos: Mining the Minor Talents

- 7: David Sider: Simonides' Personal Elegies

- 8: Antonio Aloni and Alessandro Iannucci: Writing Solon

- 9: Anika Nicolosi: Archilochus' Elegiac Fragments: Textual and Exegetical Notes

- III: Cultural Interactions

- 10: Laura Lulli: Elegy and Epic: A Complex Relationship

- 11: Margarita Alexandrou: Mythological Narratives in Hipponax

- 12: Tom Hawkins: Bupalus in Scheria: Hipponax's Odyssean Transcontextualizations

- 13: Laura Swift: Poetics and Precedents in Archilochus' Erotic Imagery

- IV: Ancient Receptions and Intertexts

- 14: Christopher Brown: Warding Off a Hailstorm of Blood: Pindar on Martial Elegy

- 15: Paula da Cunha Corrêa: The 'Ship of Fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's Republic 488a-489a

- 16: Julia Nelson Hawkins: Anger, Bile, and the Poet's Body in the Archilochean Tradition

- Bibliography

- Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Swift is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University.

Chris Carey is Professor of Greek at University College London.