Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Archaic and Classical Choral Song

Performance, Politics and Dissemination

Edited by: Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Lyall Bowie

Volume 10 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254020

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About this book

This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games. It explores the different ways such a group presented itself and was perceived by its audiences; the place of tyrants, of other prominent individuals and of communities in commissioning and funding choral performances and in securing the further circulation of the songs' texts and music; the social and political role of choral songs and the extent to which such songs continued to be performed both inside and outside the immediate family and polis-community, whether chorally or in archaic Greece's important cultural engine, the elite male symposium, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how various types of performance contributed to transmission of written texts of the poems until they were collected and edited by Alexandrian scholars in the third and second centuries BC.

Author / Editor information

Lucia Athanassaki, University of Crete, Greece; Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Reflections of choral song in early hexameter poetry Nicholas Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Alcman's first Partheneion and the song the Sirens sang Ewen Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Cyberchorus: Pindar’s Κηληδόνες and the aura of the artificial Timothy Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Enunciative fiction and poetic performance. Choral voices in Bacchylides’ Epinicians Claude Calame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Eros and praise in early Greek lyric Richard Rawles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
The parrhesia of young female choruses in Ancient Greece André P.M.H. Lardinois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides Gregory Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Ceians and their choral lyric: Athenian, epichoric and pan-Hellenic perspectives David Fearn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar’s Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo Lucia Athanassaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus Bruno Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar’s intersecting audiences A. D. Morrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Olympians 1–3: A song cycle? Jenny Strauss Clay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
The dissemination of Pindar’s non-epinician choral lyric Thomas Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Choral self-awareness: on the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus’ Supplices Athena Kavoulaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Epinician and tragic worlds: the case of Sophocles’ Trachiniae L. A. Swift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Alcman at the end of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: ritual interchorality Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria Chris Carey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Index of proper names and subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 562
Keywords: Song Performance; Choruses; Pan-Hellenism; Archaic Greece; Transmission

eBook

Published: July 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110254020

Hardcover

Published: July 18, 2011
ISBN: 9783110254013

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110482379