Athanassaki / Bowie Archaic and Classical Choral Song

Performance, Politics and Dissemination
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025402-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 570 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Athanassaki, Lucia

Bowie, Ewen Lyall

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Introduction;10
4;Reflections of choral song in early hexameter poetry;24
5;Alcman's first Partheneion and the song the Sirens sang;42
6;Cyberchorus: Pindar’s ....d..e. and the aura of the artificial;76
7;Enunciative fiction and poetic performance. Choral voices in Bacchylides’ epinicians;124
8;Eros and praise in early Greek lyric;148
9;The parrhesia of young female choruses in Ancient Greece;170
10;A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides;182
11;The Ceians and their choral lyric: Athenian, epichoric and pan-Hellenic perspectives;216
12;Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar's Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo;244
13;Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus;278
14;Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar’s intersecting audiences;320
15;Olympians 1–3: A song cycle?;346
16;The dissemination of Pindar’s non-epinician choral lyric;356
17;Choral self-awareness: on the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus’ Supplices;374
18;Epinician and tragic Worlds: the case of Sophocles’ Trachiniae;400
19;Alcman at the end of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: ritual interchorality;424
20;Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria;446
21;Bibliography;470
22;List of Contributors;508
23;Index of proper names and subjects;512
24;Index locorum;552

Über Autor(innen)

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