Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy

by Rosa Andújar (Editor), Thomas R. P. Coward (Editor), Theodora A. Hadjimichael (Editor)

Overview

Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and performative. The collected essays demonstrate the dynamic and nuanced relationship between lyric poetry and tragedy within the larger frame of Athenian song- and performance-culture, and reveal a vibrant and symbiotic co-existence between tragedy and lyric. Paths of Song illustrates the effects that this dynamic engagement with lyric possibly had on tragic performances, including performances of satyr drama, as well as on processes of survival and reputation, selection and refiguration, tradition and innovation. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the field of classics, cultural studies, and the performing arts, as well as to readers interested in poetic transmission and in cultural evolution in antiquity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110573312
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	02/05/2018
Series:	Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , #58
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

R. Andújar, King's College London, UK; T. R. P. Coward, George Mason Univ., VA, USA; T. A. Hadjimichael, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Rosa Andújar Thomas R.P. Coward Theodora A. Hadjimichael ix

Introduction 1

I Tragic and Lyric Poets in Dialogue

Stesichorus and Greek Tragedy P. J. Finglass 19

'Stesichorean' Footsteps in the Parados of Aeschylus' Agamemnon Thomas R.P. Coward 39

Pindar at Colonus: A Sophoclean Response to Olympians 2 and 3 Pavlos Sfyroeras 65

Talking Thalassocracy in Fifth-century Athens: From Bacchylides' 'Theseus Odes' (17 & 18) and Cimonian Monuments to Euripides' Troades Lucia Athanassaki 87

II Refiguring Lyric Genres in Tragedy

Competing Generic Narratives in Aeschylus' Oresteia Laura Swift 119

How Sophocles Begins: Reshaping Lyric Genres in Tragic Choruses Andrea Rodighiero 137

Constructing Chorality in Prometheus Bound: The Poetic Background of Divine Choruses in Tragedy Anastasia Lazani 163

Epinisian Discourse in Euripides' Tragedies: The Case of Alexandros Alexandros Kampakoglou 187

III Performing the Chorus: Ritual, Song, and Dance

Theoric song and the Rhetoric of Ritual in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women Richard Rawles 221

What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides' Trojan Women Giovanni Fanfani 239

Hyporchematic Footprints in Euripides' Electra Rosa Andújar 265

Dancing in Delphi, Dancing in Thebes: The Lyric Chorus in Euripides' Phoenician Women Enrico Emanuele Prodi 291

Performing the Wedding Song in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis Naomi A. Weiss 315

New Music in Sophocles' Ichneutae Timothy Power 343

Afterword: On the Nonexistence of Tragic Odes Andrew Ford 367

Bibliography 381

Notes on Contributors 415

Index of Proper Names and Subjects 419

Index Locorum 433