Hipponax the Poet

Vanessa Casato is Marie Curie Global Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Ca' Foscari University Venice. She has worked on Greek lyric poetry – particularly its imagery and cognitive playfulness – and is now working on a comparative study of archaic Greek lyric and Japanese Noh theatre. Enrico Emanuele Prodi is Assistant Professor in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Cagliari. He is a Hellenist and papyrologist and his interests include archaic Greek lyric, ancient scholarship, and the history of the book in antiquity. His dissertation on Pindar's Prosodia was awarded the Conington Prize. He and Vanessa Casato are the editors of The Cup of Song (2016).

• 1. The Limping Muse: Hipponax the Poet Vanessa Casato and Enrico Emanuele Prodi; 2. From Ritual to Indecent Symposion: Contextualising Hipponax Carmine Catenacci; 3. The Black Cat in the Dark: Performance(s) of Hipponactean Iambos Margarita Alexandrou; 4. Hipponax and the Thargelia Shane Hawkins; 5. Homer and Hipponax Adrian Kelly; 6. Hipponax's Iambic Persona and the Protean Art of Begging Andrea Capra; 7. Kandaules 'the Dog-Throttler', Greco-Lydian Onomastics, and the Poetics of Iambos: Hipponax fr. 3a West in Context Alexander Dale; 8. Self-Naming in Hipponax Daniel Anderson; 9. Hipponax vs. Boupalos: Verbal vs. Visual Art? Deborah Boedeker; 10. Dirty Words in Hipponax S. Douglas Olson; 11. Hipponax, Iambic Laughter, and the Question of Genre Ralph M. Rosen; 12. Poetry and Anti-Poetry: Hipponax in Perspective Michael Silk.

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