Textual Events

Felix Budelmann is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and the Open University, and his research focuses on Greek literature, especially lyric and tragedy.Following graduate work at the University of Oxford, Tom Phillips was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College (2013-16). He is currently working on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Anachronism and Antiquity', and his research focuses on lyric, Hellenistic poetry, and ancient scholarship.

[I] was impressed with the clarity and utility of the concept of textual events editors Budelmann and Phillips present ... [this book] offers its readers a cautious methodological synthesis with an astonishing degree of flex and sway ... form[s] an impressive and clarion whole.

• Frontmatter List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Felix Budelmann and Tom Phillips: Introduction I: Occasionality 2: Giambattista D Alessio: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Lyric: The Case of Sappho 3: Anna Uhlig: Sailing and Singing: Alcaeus at Sea 4: David Fearn: Materialities of Political Commitment? Textual Events, Material Culture, and Metaliterarity in Alcaeus 5: G. O. Hutchinson: What is a Setting? II: Conceptual Contexts 6: Tim Whitmarsh: Sappho and Cyborg Helen 7: Henry Spelman: Event and Artefact: The Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Archaic Lyric, and Early Greek Literary History 8: Oliver Thomas: Hermetically Unsealed: Lyric Genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 9: Tom Phillips: Polyphony, Event, Context: Pindar, Paean 9 III: Lyric Encounters 10: Pauline A. LeVen: Echo and the Invention of the Lyric Listener 11: Felix Budelmann: Lyric Minds 12: Mark Payne: Fidelity and Farewell: Pindar's Ethics as Textual Events Endmatter Works Cited Index