Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture

Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin Literature: his most recent books include Plato's Symposium (2004, with M. Fantuzzi); Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2004); and The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006). Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. His principal research interests are Greek lyric, religious practice and state-pilgrimage, and the relations between Greek and eastern cultures. His Pindar's Paeans was published in 2001, and he is an editor of Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (2005).

• List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Richard Hunter and Ian Rutherford; 2. Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts and festivals Mary Bachvarova; 3. Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet? Peter Wilson; 4. Read on arrival Richard P. Martin; 5. Wandering poets, archaic style Ewen Bowie; 6. Defining local communities in Greek lyric poetry Giovan Battista D'Alessio; 7. Wandering poetry, 'travelling' music: Timotheus' Muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities Lucia Prauscello; 8. Epigrammatic contest, poeti vaganti and local history Andrej Petrovic; 9. World travellers: the associations of Artists of Dionysus Sophia Aneziri; 10. Aristodama and the Aetolians: an itinerant poetess and her agenda Ian Rutherford; 11. Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world Angelos Chaniotis; Bibliography; Index.

Review of the hardback: '… this is a wonderful book. It deals with a matter whose importance is still underestimated. The authors of the different papers enter into a dialogue with each other and write in a way that is certain to inspire new research. All in all, this is an amazing collection.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review