Hipponax the Poet

Poetic Mischief in Archaic Greece

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona. This is the first book-length literary study of Hipponax for almost half a century. It is written by an international team of scholars, who tackle various topics such as his relationship with social mores, performance practices, earlier and later poetry, and the visual arts. Contributors apply a range of perspectives for a richer understanding of Hipponax's poetics and provide close readings of several key texts. The volume is suitable for scholars and students of literature and all the Greek is translated.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009502276

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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.