Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

SARAH NOOTER is Professor of Classics and Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge, 2012), The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge, 2017), and co-editor, with Shane Butler, of Sound and the Ancient Senses (2018). She is Editor of the journal Classical Philology.

'Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality offers a bold reassessment of archaic and classical Greek poetry. Sarah Nooter explores temporality as a key aspect of song that allows her to bring together various strands - notably, embodiment, performance, and textual transmission. Her use of new materialism, phenomenology, sound studies, and approaches to affects is sophisticated and yields many original interpretations of poems by Archilochus, Sappho, and other authors. Well argued and engagingly written, Nooter's book is a pleasure to read.' Jonas Grethlein, Professor of Classics, Universität Heidelberg

• 1. Did the heart beat? Rhythm and the body in ancient Greek poetry; 2. The substance of song: music in Homer and the Homeric Hymns; 3. The erotics of again: time and touch in Sappho; 4. Situating Simonides: stones, song, and sound; 5. Writing the future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the tablet of the mind; 6. Recovering the bodies of Archilochus' Cologne Epode and Timotheus' Persae.