Drama and Performance in Hellenistic Poetry

by M. A. Harder (Editor), R. F. Regtuit (Editor), G. C. Wakker (Editor)

Overview

This volume is devoted to aspects of performance in Hellenistic poetry. This theme is approached from various angles. Although drama has long been regarded as typical of fifth century Athens, there is an increasing awareness among classical scholars of the importance of drama also for the Hellenistic period. In that period too drama was still written and performed, but at the same time it also was an important object of study and a source of inspiration for works in other genres, such as the epic of Apollonius Rhodius, for new literary forms like the idylls of Theocritus or the mimiambs of Herodas, or for literary experiments such as the extended messenger speech in the Alexandra of Lycophron. Besides, performance was never restricted to drama, but from the archaic period onwards was essential to the presentation of poetry to an audience and thus remained an integral part of Greek cultural life in all periods, also in times of increasing literacy like the Hellenistic period. Therefore in this volume also epic and didactic poetry as well as shorter works from, e.g., a cultic, ritual or sympotic sphere have been studied from the point of view of performance. The various articles show that the focus on performance is a fruitful perspective for looking at Hellenistic poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789042936546
Publisher:	Peeters Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Series:	Hellenistica Groningana , #23
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface Annette Harder v

The Motif of Paraclausithyron as Hint of Performance in the Hellenistic Poetry Sofia Belioti 1

Drama, Performance and Authorial Self-Representation in Herodas Mimiamb 8 Barnaby Chesterton 13

The Performative Life of the Hellenistic Period through Inscriptions. The Case Study of Delphi and Delos Angela Cinalli 39

Y a-t-il des modalités particulières de la performance vocale féminine dans la poésie hellénistique ? Une parole contrainte Christophe Cusset 75

The Poetics of Lamentation: Performances and Ritual in Bion's Epitaph on Adonis Andreas Fountoulakis 99

Rethinking 'Mimetic Poetry' and Callymachus' Hymn to Apollo Adrian Gramps 129

Enacting Drama: Herod. 1 and A.P. V. 181 (Ascl. 25, Gow-Page) David Kutzko 157

Watching Tragedy in Lycophron's Alexandra Katherine Molesworth 173

Silencing Orpheus: The Fiction of Performance in Apollonius' Argonautica Jackie Murray 201

The Shadow of Aristophanes: Hellenistic Poetry's Reception of Comic Poetics Thomas J. Nelson 225

Spectators-in-Performance in Theocritus' Adoniazusae Maria Papadopoulou 273

Mimeticism, Performance and Re-Performance in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo and Inscribed Paians Alan Sheppard 293

Reading and Performing Didactic Poetry in the Hellenistic Period Kathryn Wilson 317

Index of Passages Discussed 333

Index of Greek Words 339

Index of Names and Subjects 341