Table of Contents
Abbreviations and Standard Editions x
Preface xviii
Section 1 Contexts 1
1 The Lyric Chorus 3 Lucia Athanassaki
2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric 19 William Furley
3 Epic and Lyric 34 Adrian Kelly
4 Commemorating the Athlete 47 Nigel Nicholson
5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium 62 Marek Węcowski
6 Politics 76 Jonathan M. Hall
Section 2 Methodologies and Techniques 89
7 Papyrology 91 C. Michael Sampson
8 Citation and Transmission 119 Tom Phillips
9 Meter and Music 132 Armand D’Angour
10 The Lyric Dialects 142 Mark de Kreij
11 Deixis and World Building 162 Evert van Emde Boas
12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite’s Sanctuary 176 Annette Giesecke
13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments 192 Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Section 3 Authors and Forms 205
14 Iambos 207 Klaus Lennartz
15 Elegy 221 Krystyna Bartol
16 Stesichorus 234 P. J. Finglass
17 Alcman 245 Timothy Power
18 Sappho 261 André Lardinois
19 Alcaeus 275 Henry Spelman
20 Ibycus and Anacreon 290 Ettore Cingano
21 Solon and Theognis 303 Ewen Bowie
22 Simonides 317 Richard Rawles
23 Pindar 333 Christopher Brown
24 Bacchylides 346 David Fearn
25 The New Music 362 Pauline A. LeVen
26 Dramatic Lyric 377 Laura Swift
27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period 389 A. D. Morrison
Section 4 Receptions 405
28 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace 407 Andreas T. Zanker
29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry 424 Tobias Allendorf
30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar 437 John T. Hamilton
31 “Anacreon” in America 453 Patricia Rosenmeyer
32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North 467 William Allan
33 Sappho and the Feminist Movement: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 484 Marguerite Johnson
34 Anne Carson’s Lyric Temporalities: Desire, Immortality, and Time in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichorus 496 Hannah Silverblank
35 Greek Lyric and Pindar in Brazil 512 Robert de Brose
Bibliography 526
Index 573