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Greek Lyric and the Sacred
Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 6
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 503
Herodotus famously credits Homer and Hesiod with shaping the Greeks' image of their gods. Yet the contribution of the Archaic and Early Classical lyric poets was equally, if not more, important. This book explores images of intimate interactions of mortals and immortals in sacred and profane locales, and assesses how performance sub specie divinitatis fired poetsâ imagination, taking into account both new scholarly approaches to lyric and Greek religion and the discovery of important new fragments.
Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology Emerita at the University of Crete. She has published extensively on Greek Lyric and Tragedy, with emphasis on the interface between performance and material culture, and more recently on Plutarch.
André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main fields of interest are archaic Greek poetry and classical drama.
Contributors are: Mary R. Bachvarova, Anton Bierl, Angus Bowie, Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Stefano Fanucchi, Thomas Hubbard, Athena Kavoulaki, Lawrence Kowerski, Amy Mars, Richard Martin, Gregory Nagy, Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi, Cecilia Nobili, Cameron G. Pearson, Gabriella Pironti, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Saskia Willigers.
André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main fields of interest are archaic Greek poetry and classical drama.
Contributors are: Mary R. Bachvarova, Anton Bierl, Angus Bowie, Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Stefano Fanucchi, Thomas Hubbard, Athena Kavoulaki, Lawrence Kowerski, Amy Mars, Richard Martin, Gregory Nagy, Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi, Cecilia Nobili, Cameron G. Pearson, Gabriella Pironti, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Saskia Willigers.
Preface
List of Figures
Note on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âLucia Athanassaki and André Lardinois
1 Dancing before Dawn: The Performance and Ritual Context of Alcmanâs Partheneion
âThomas Hubbard
2 Forms of Melic Poetry as Musical and Ritualistic Acts Referring to the Divine: Neither âLyricâ, nor âSacredâ
âClaude Calame
3 Cultic Space and Dithyrambic Performance in Pindarâs Fragment 75
âStefano Fanucchi
4 The Role of Ritual and Monument in Creating Kleos: The Epigram of Alcmaeonides from the Sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios (IG I3 1469 = CEG 302)
âCameron G. Pearson
5 Sacred Space as a Frame for Lyric Occasions: The Cases of Hippolytus at Troezen and of Archilochus at Paros
âGregory Nagy
6 Between Delphi and Delos: Paros and Apollo from Archilochus to Pindar
âCecilia Nobili
7 What Color Is the Pindaric Sacred?
âRichard Martin
8 Pindar and the Ecopoetics of Sacred Space
âAmy Mars
9 The Sacred in the Aesthetic Texture of Song between Female and Male Performance Practice in Lesbos
A Survey and Some Instances in the Mythic-Ritual Poetics of Sappho and Alcaeus
âAnton Bierl
10 Narrative Functions of the Muses in Archaic Lyric
âSaskia Willigers
11 To Seem to Be a God among Men: The Sacred and Poetic Posturing in the Theognidea
âLawrence Kowerski
12 Playing with the Sacred at the Symposion
âVanessa Casato
13 On Polytheism in Greek Lyric Poetry
âGabriella Pironti
14 Sapphoâs Persuasive Prayers
âMary R. Bachvarova
15 Pindar Fragment 70b: A Literary Archetype of Dionysiac Choreia
âSmaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi
16 Ritual, Synergy and Intimacy in Nondramatic and Dramatic Choral Lyric: Pindar Fragment 75, Euripidesâ Cyclops, and Aristophanesâ Frogs
âAthena Kavoulaki
17 How âSacredâ Are the Lyrics of Aristophanes?
âAngus Bowie
18 Song and/as Sacrifice: On the Sacrificial Pragmatics of Poetry
âPavlos Sfyroeras
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Subjects and Names
List of Figures
Note on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âLucia Athanassaki and André Lardinois
Part 1 Sacred Contexts
1 Dancing before Dawn: The Performance and Ritual Context of Alcmanâs Partheneion
âThomas Hubbard
2 Forms of Melic Poetry as Musical and Ritualistic Acts Referring to the Divine: Neither âLyricâ, nor âSacredâ
âClaude Calame
3 Cultic Space and Dithyrambic Performance in Pindarâs Fragment 75
âStefano Fanucchi
4 The Role of Ritual and Monument in Creating Kleos: The Epigram of Alcmaeonides from the Sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios (IG I3 1469 = CEG 302)
âCameron G. Pearson
5 Sacred Space as a Frame for Lyric Occasions: The Cases of Hippolytus at Troezen and of Archilochus at Paros
âGregory Nagy
6 Between Delphi and Delos: Paros and Apollo from Archilochus to Pindar
âCecilia Nobili
Part 2 The Fabric and Texture of the Sacred
7 What Color Is the Pindaric Sacred?
âRichard Martin
8 Pindar and the Ecopoetics of Sacred Space
âAmy Mars
9 The Sacred in the Aesthetic Texture of Song between Female and Male Performance Practice in Lesbos
A Survey and Some Instances in the Mythic-Ritual Poetics of Sappho and Alcaeus
âAnton Bierl
10 Narrative Functions of the Muses in Archaic Lyric
âSaskia Willigers
11 To Seem to Be a God among Men: The Sacred and Poetic Posturing in the Theognidea
âLawrence Kowerski
12 Playing with the Sacred at the Symposion
âVanessa Casato
Part 3 Representations of Human Communication with the Divine
13 On Polytheism in Greek Lyric Poetry
âGabriella Pironti
14 Sapphoâs Persuasive Prayers
âMary R. Bachvarova
15 Pindar Fragment 70b: A Literary Archetype of Dionysiac Choreia
âSmaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi
16 Ritual, Synergy and Intimacy in Nondramatic and Dramatic Choral Lyric: Pindar Fragment 75, Euripidesâ Cyclops, and Aristophanesâ Frogs
âAthena Kavoulaki
17 How âSacredâ Are the Lyrics of Aristophanes?
âAngus Bowie
18 Song and/as Sacrifice: On the Sacrificial Pragmatics of Poetry
âPavlos Sfyroeras
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Subjects and Names
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