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A COMPANION TO GREEK LYRIC
Edited by
Laura Swift
Open University
Milton Keynes, UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Swift, Laura, 1979- editor. Title: A companion to Greek lyric / edited by Laura Swift. Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022. | Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: Contexts. The lyric chorus / Lucia Athanassaki -- Religion and ritual in early Greek lyric / William Furley -- Epic and lyric / Adrian Kelly -- Commemorating the athlete / Nigel Nicholson -- Aristocracy, aristocratic culture and the symposium / Marek We.cowski -- Politics / Jonathan M. Hall -- Methodol gies and techniques. Papyrology / C. Michael Sampson -- Citation and transmission / Tom Phillips -- Metre and music / Armand D’Angour -- The lyric dialects / Mark de Kreij -- Deixis and world building / Evert van Emde Boas -- Lyric space : Sappho and Aphrodite’s sanctuary / Annette Giesecke -- Sappho, performance, and acting fragments / Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- Authors and forms. Iambos / Klaus Lennartz -- Elegy / Krystyna Bartol -- Stesichorus / P. J. Finglass -- Alcman / Timothy Power -- Sappho / Andre. Lardinois -- Alcaeus / Henry Spelman -- Ibycus and Anacreon / Ettore Cingano -- Solon and Theognis / Ewen Bowie -- Simonides / Richard Rawles -- Pindar / Christopher Brown -- Bacchylides / David Fearn -- The new music / Pauline LeVen -- Dramatic lyric / Laura Swift -- The lyres of Orpheus : the transformations of lyric in the Hellenistic period / A. D. Morrison -- Receptions. Greek iambic and lyric in Horace / Andreas T. Zanker -- Greek lyric at Rome : before and after Augustan poetry / Tobias Allendorf -- The gift of song : German receptions of Pindar / John T. Hamilton -- ‘Anacreon’ in America / Patricia Rosenmeyer -- Greek lyric : a view from the north / William Allan -- Sappho and the feminist movement : twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Marguerite Johnson -- Ann Carson’s lyric temporalties / Hannah Silverblank -- Greek lyric and Pindar in Brazil / Robert de Brose. Identifiers: LCCN 2021021056 (print) | LCCN 2021021057 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119122623 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119122647 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119122654 (epub) | ISBN 9781119122661 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Greek poetry--History and criticism. | Lyric poetry--History and criticism. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Essays. Classification: LCC PA3092 .C65 2022 (print) | LCC PA3092 (ebook) | DDC 881.009--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021056 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021057
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