Laura Swift is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. The author of Archilochus: The Poems, Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts, The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric, and Euripides: Ion, she also works with theatre practitioners on how to represent and stage fragmentary Greek poetry as a contemporary art form.

• Abbreviations and Standard Editions xPreface xviiiSection 1 Contexts 11 The Lyric Chorus 3Lucia Athanassaki2 Religion and Ritual in Early Greek Lyric 19William Furley3 Epic and Lyric 34Adrian Kelly4 Commemorating the Athlete 47Nigel Nicholson5 Aristocracy, Aristocratic Culture, and the Symposium 62Marek Węcowski6 Politics 76Jonathan M. HallSection 2 Methodologies and Techniques 897 Papyrology 91C. Michael Sampson8 Citation and Transmission 119Tom Phillips9 Meter and Music 132Armand D’Angour10 The Lyric Dialects 142Mark de Kreij11 Deixis and World Building 162Evert van Emde Boas12 Lyric Space: Sappho and Aphrodite’s Sanctuary 176Annette Giesecke13 Sappho, Performance, and Acting Fragments 192Jane Montgomery GriffithsSection 3 Authors and Forms 20514 Iambos 207Klaus Lennartz15 Elegy 221Krystyna Bartol16 Stesichorus 234P. J. Finglass17 Alcman 245Timothy Power18 Sappho 261André Lardinois19 Alcaeus 275Henry Spelman20 Ibycus and Anacreon 290Ettore Cingano21 Solon and Theognis 303Ewen Bowie22 Simonides 317Richard Rawles23 Pindar 333Christopher Brown24 Bacchylides 346David Fearn25 The New Music 362Pauline A. LeVen26 Dramatic Lyric 377Laura Swift27 The Lyres of Orpheus: The Transformations of Lyric in the Hellenistic Period 389A. D. MorrisonSection 4 Receptions 40528 Greek Iambic and Lyric in Horace 407Andreas T. Zanker29 Greek Lyric at Rome: Before and After Augustan Poetry 424Tobias Allendorf30 The Gift of Song: German Receptions of Pindar 437John T. Hamilton31 “Anacreon” in America 453Patricia Rosenmeyer32 Greek Lyric: A View from the North 467William Allan33 Sappho and the Feminist Movement: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 484Marguerite Johnson34 Anne Carson’s Lyric Temporalities: Desire, Immortality, and Time in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichorus 496Hannah Silverblank35 Greek Lyric and Pindar in Brazil 512Robert de BroseBibliography 526Index 573

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