Table of Contents
Abbreviations xvi
Part 1 Greek Iambos (7th-4th Cent. BCE): Genre and Corpus
1 Approaching Genre 3
1 A cognitive view of archaic poetic genres 3
2 Approaches to the genre and corpus of iambos 16
2 The Corpus of Iambic Poets 25
1 Canon vs. Corpus 27
2 The 'received iambos' 34
i The 'received iambos': three explanations 52
Part 2 Ways of Seeing
3 Iambos in Aristotle's Works 61
1 Aristotle's use of terms 61
2 Aristotle's scholarship on iambos 67
3 The Poetics on genres 69
4 Aristotle on the history of poetry (Poetics 4) 74
i Theoretical or Deductive approach 80
ii Empirical or Inductive approach 83
iii Iambos in Aristotle's history of poetry 86
5 Psogoi and iamboi 88
6 The Margites and iamboi 98
i Iambeion kaleitai nun 100
ii Back to the Margites 102
7 The iambike idea 104
8 Aristotle's conceptualization of iambos 108
4 Ancient Theories of Iambos 112
1 Ancient scholarship on iambos 113
2 Etymologies of iambos 116
3 Diomedes 125
4 Proclus (ap. Phot. Chrest. 319b) 130
5 Iambos in Hellenistic genre theories 136
6 Ancient theories of iambos: three paradigms 143
Part3 Iambos and Iambeion: A Study of Terms in Context
5 Iambos in Archilochus (fr. 215W) 151
6 Iambe and Iambos 167
1 Iambe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 167
2 Aischrologia 171
3 Iambe in later literary sources 173
4 Iambe and Baubo 176
5 Iambe and iambos 180
7 Iambos and Iambeion in the Classical Period 183
1 Iambos as a rhythmical term 183
2 Iambos as a generic term 188
i Herodotus (1.12) 188
ii Aristophanes and the first quotation of an iambos (Ra. 661) 201
iii Iamboi among literary genres in Plato 206
3 Iambeion 210
4 Aristoxenus of Selinus and the hypothesis of a Dorian iambos 213
5 A history of terms 221
Part 4 The Performance of Iambos
8 Musical Performance of Iamboi 229
1 Archilochus as a musical innovator 230
2 Iambis, pariambis and iambyke 234
3 Plato's Laws 935e: were iamboi sung? 240
4 Iambos and the Pythian Nomos 248
5 The occasional singing of iamboi 251
9 Public Performance of Iamboi 253
1 Archilochus in mousikoi agones (Heraclit. 42 DK) 256
2 Iamboi in mousikoi agones (Pl. Lg. 935e) 259
3 Watching iamboi in theatres (Arist. Pol 1336b) 261
4 Rhapsodic performances of iamboi (Ath. 620c) 263
5 Iambistai as performers of iamboi (Ath. 181c) 266
6 Iambos as performance 276
Part 5 Perceptions of Iambos
10 Archilochus as a Prototype of Invective Poetry 281
1 Pindar's Archilochus: praise and blame 284
2 Archilochus on the Athenian stage 289
3 The Parian heroization of Archilochus 293
4 The golden Gorgias and the new Archilochus 298
5 Critias' invective against Archilochus 300
6 Archilochus as representative of invective 317
11 Invective as the Dominant Feature of Iambos 319
1 Iambos and the ridicule of citizens (Pl. Lg. 935e) 320
2 Iambos and obscenity (Arist. Pol. 1336b) 325
3 'That sorcerer fed on iambos' (Dem. Cor. 139.7) 328
4 Parapsogos and iambos (Pl. Phdr. 267a) 333
5 The emergence of invective 341
Final Remarks 347
Bibliography 353
Index Locorum 381
General Index 384