The Cup of Song Studies on Poetry and the Symposion 1st Edition by Vanessa Cazzato, Dirk Obbink, Enrico Emanuele Prodi 0191091100 9780191091100

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Author:  Vanessa Cazzato, Dirk Obbink, Enrico Emanuele Prodi 

The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a performance setting. The Cup of Song explores the symbiotic relationship of poetry and the symposion throughout Greek literary history, considering the latter both as a literal performance context and as an imaginary space pregnant with social, political, and aesthetic implications. This collection of essays by an international group of leading scholars illuminates the various facets of this relationship, from Greek literature’s earliest beginnings through to its afterlife in Roman poetry, ranging from the Near Eastern origins of the Greek symposion in the eighth century to Horace’s evocations of his archaic models and Lucian’s knowing reworking of classic texts. Each chapter discusses one aspect of sympotic engagement by key authors across the major genres of Greek poetry, including archaic and classical lyric, tragedy and comedy, and Hellenistic epigram; discussions of literary sources are complemented by analysis of the visual evidence of painted pottery. Consideration of these diverse modes and genres from the unifying perspective of their relation to the symposion leads to a characterization of the full spectrum of sympotic poetry that retains an eye to both its shared common features and the specificity of individual genres and texts.

The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposion 1st table of contents:

1. The Symposion between East and West
2. Quo usque tandem…? How Long Were Sympotic Songs?
Conclusions
3. Some Thoughts on the Symposiastic Catena, Aisakos, and Skolia
Aisakos, A Branch of Myrtle
Aristophanes, Wasps 1219–48 and the Etymology and Origin of Skolion
Back to the Symposiastic Catena
4. Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs
5. The Symposion as Theme and Performance Context in Pindar’s Epinicians
The Symposion as Theme: Similes and Metaphors
Marginal Cases
The Symposion as Performance Context
ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑ ΔΕ ΦΡΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΜΠΟΤΑΙΣΙΝ ΟΜΙΛΕΙΝ: Pindar’s Honorands at the Symposion
6. Smikros: Fictional Portrait of an Artist as a Symposiast by Euphronios
Genre
Who painted the vases signed smikros egraphsen?
The Fictitious First-Person Narrator in Archaic Poetry
The Function of Fictional First-Person Narrators
Why invent a painter named smikros?
The Fictitious Artist in Archaic Poetry
Euphron and smikros on a vase painted by euphronios?
Smikros as an Iambic Theme
7. Symposia and the Formation of Poetic Genre in Aristophanes’ Wasps
8. Parting Shots: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384–98 and Symposia in the Visual Repertoire
Lines 1384–92: Sympotic Games
Lines 1393–8: Fresh Sympotic Transgressions
Games and Symposia Elsewhere in the Drama
The Site of Agamemnon’s Death and Sympotic Politics
9. Symposia en plein air in Alcaeus and Others
10. The World in a Cup: Ekpomatics in and out of the Symposion
11. Party or Perish: Death, Wine, and Closure in Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram
12. Hierarchy and Symposiastic Poetry, Greek and Latin

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