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Title Authorship and Greek song : authority, authenticity, and performance / edited by Egbert J. Bakker
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 295 pages) : color illustrations
Series Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 402
Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song ; vol. 3
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 402.
Studies in archaic and classical Greek song ; v. 3.
Contents Introduction / Egbert J. Bakker -- The construction of authority in Pindar's Isthmian 2 in performance / Eva Stehle -- Voice and worship / Christopher Carey -- Crooked competition: the performance and poetics of Skolia / Richard P. Martin -- Placing the poet: the topography of authorship / Nicholas Boterf -- Trust and fame: the seal of Theognis / Egbert J. Bakker -- Authenticity and autochthonous traditions in Archaic and Hellenistic lyric poetry / Jacqueline Klooster -- Embedded song and poetic authority in Pindar and Bacchylides / Sarah J. Harden -- Narratorial authority and its subversion in Archilochus / Laura Swift -- The invention of Stesichorus : Hesiod, Helen, and the muse / Jesús Carruesco -- On the antagonism between divine and human performer in Archaic Greek poetics / Vayos Liapis -- "Newly written buds:" Archaic and Classical pseudepigrapha in Meleager's Garland / Irene Peirano Garrison -- Sappho or Alcaeus: authors and genres of Archaic hymns / Leanna Boychenko -- Which Sappho? The case study of the Cologne Papyrus / Elisabetta Pitotto and Amedeo A. Raschieri
Summary Authorship and Greek Song is a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of authorship in the song culture of Ancient Greece. In this cultural context the idea of the poet as author of his poems is complicated by the fact that poetry in archaic Greece circulated as songs performed for a variety of audiences, both local and "global" (Panhellenic). The volume's chapters discuss questions about the importance of the singers/performers; the nature of the performance occasion; the status of the poet; the authority of the poet/author and/or that of the performer; and the issues of authenticity arising when poems are composed under a given poet's name. The volume offers discussions of major authors such as Pindar, Sappho, and Theognis
Notes Selected papers presented at a conference entitled "Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity in Archaic and Classical Greek Song," which was held June 6-9, 2011 at Yale University, organized by the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2021)
Subject Greek poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Greek poetry -- Authorship -- Congresses
Oral interpretation of poetry -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Oral tradition -- Greece -- Congresses
POETRY -- Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek poetry
Oral interpretation of poetry
Oral tradition
Greece
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bakker, Egbert J., editor.
LC no. 2016058066
ISBN 9789004339705
9004339701