The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

by Pauline A. LeVen
The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry

by Pauline A. LeVen

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Overview

This is the first monograph entirely devoted to the corpus of late classical Greek lyric poetry. Not only have the dithyrambs and kitharodic nomes of the New Musicians Timotheus and Philoxenus, the hymns of Aristotle and Ariphron, and the epigraphic paeans of Philodamus of Scarpheia and Isyllus of Epidaurus never been studied side by side, they have also remained hidden behind a series of critical prejudices – political, literary and aesthetic. Professor LeVen's book provides readings of these little-known poems and combines engagement with the style, narrative technique, poetics and reception of the texts with attention to the socio-cultural forces that shaped them. In examining the protean notions of tradition and innovation, the book contributes to the current reevaluation of the landscape of Greek poetry and performance in the late classical period and bridges a gap in our understanding of Greek literary history between the early classical and the Hellenistic periods.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781107018532
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/16/2014
Pages: 386
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Pauline A. LeVen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. She has published articles on Timotheus' language, Athenaeus and the reception of New Music, Aristotle's Hymn to Virtue and fourth-century epigraphy, and is now working on a monograph devoted to the anecdote as a narrative and social practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction: definitions, methods, prejudices of reception; 1. A collection of unrecollected authors? The corpus and its problems; 2. New music and its myths: rhetoric, persona, and the theatre stage; 3. Musical lives: reading through the lives of the poets; 4. The language of new music: poetics of compounds and baroque aesthetics; 5. From authority to fantasy: narrative, voice, fictionality; 6. A canon set in stone? Epigraphy, literacy, musical tourism; Conclusion.
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