Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext

Bruno Currie, DPhil (2000), Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Classics at that university. His research interests include early Greek epic and lyric poetry and Greek religion. He is the author of Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (OUP, 2005) and Homer’s Allusive Art (OUP, 2016).Ian Rutherford, DPhil (1986), Oxford University, Professor of Classics at Reading University, works on Greek poetry and religion and its Mediterranean/W. Asiatic contexts. Recent books include State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece (2013) and Greco-Egyptian Interactions (2016).List of Contributors: Andre Lardinois, Eveline van Hilten-Rutten, Gregory Nagy, Claude Calame, Krystyna Bartol, Theodora Hadjimichael, ElsaBouchard, David Fearn, Andrea Capra, Maria Kazanskaya, Ewen Bowie, Gregor Bitto, Stefano Caciagli, Renate Schlesier, Jessica Romney, Jacqueline Klooster, Francesca Modini, Tom Phillips, Enrico Prodi, Johannes Breuer, Arlette Neumann-Hartmann.

"The volume consists of a detailed introduction and 21 essays arranged into seven parts in terms of theme and time. In size, it is imposing; in scope, it is inspiring." Lawrence Kowerski in BMCR 2021.04.35

• PrefaceNote on Abbreviations, Texts, and TranslationsNotes on Contributors1 The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization, and ParatextBruno Currie and Ian RutherfordPart 1 Transmission2 New Philology and the Classics: Accounting for Variation in the Textual Transmission of Greek Lyric PoetryAndré Lardinois3 Tyrtaeus the Lawgiver: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus on Tyrtaeus fr. 4Eveline van Hilten-RuttenPart 2 Canons4 On the Shaping of the Lyric Canon in AthensGregory Nagy5 Melic Poets and Melic Forms in the Comedies of Aristophanes: Poetic Genres and the Creation of a CanonClaude Calame6 Structuring the Genre: The Fifth- and Fourth-Century Authors on Elegy and Elegiac PoetsKrystyna BartolPart 3 Lyric in the Peripatetics7 The Peripatetics and the Transmission of LyricTheodora A. Hadjimichael8 The Self-Revealing Poet: Lyric Poetry and Cultural History in the Peripatetic SchoolElsa BouchardPart 4 Early Reception9 Lyric Reception and Sophistic Literarity in Timotheus’ PersaeDavid Fearn10 “Total Reception”: Stesichorus as Revenant in Plato’s Phaedrus (with a New Stesichorean Fragment?)Andrea Capra11 Indirect Tradition on Sappho’s kertomiaMaria KazanskayaPart 5 Reception in Roman poetry12 Alcaeus’ stasiotica: Catullan and Horatian ReadingsEwen Bowie13 Pindar, Paratexts, and Poetry: Architectural Metaphors in Pindar and Roman Poets (Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Statius)Gregor BittoPart 6 Second Sophistic Contexts14 Sympotic Sappho? The Recontextualization of Sappho’s Verses in AthenaeusStefano Caciagli15 A Sophisticated hetaira at Table: Athenaeus’ SapphoRenate Schlesier16 Solon and the Democratic Biographical TraditionJessica Romney17 Strategies of Quoting Solon’s Poetry in Plutarch’s Life of SolonJacqueline Klooster18 Playing with Terpander & Co.: Lyric, Music, and Politics in Aelius Aristides’ To the Rhodians: Concerning ConcordFrancesca ModiniPart 7 Scholarship19 Historiography and Ancient Pindaric ScholarshipTom Phillips20 Poem-Titles in Simonides, Pindar, and BacchylidesEnrico Emanuele Prodi21 Ita dictum accipe: Pomponius Porphyrio on Early Greek Lyric Poetry in HoraceJohannes Breuer22 Pindar and His Commentator Eustathius of ThessalonicaArlette Neumann-HartmannIndex of PassagesGeneral Index