Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
0: Ian Rutherford: Introduction
Part A. General Themes
1: Claude Calame: Greek Lyric Poetry, a Non-Existent Genre?
2: Malcolm Davies: Monody, Choral Lyric, and the Tyranny of the Hand-Book
3: Wolfgang Rösler: Real Persona or Poetic Persona? The Interpretation of the "I" in Ancient Greek Lyric
4: Gregory Nagy: Genre and Occasion
5: E. L. Bowie: Early Greek Elegy, Symposium, and Public Festival
6: Simon Slings: Symposium and Interpretation: Elegy as Group-Song and the So-Called Awakening Individual
7: Andrew Ford: The Genre of Genres: Paeans and Paian in Early Greek Poetry
Part B. Studies on Specific Poets
8: E. Robbins: Alcman's Partheneion: Legend and Choral Ceremony
9: Bernd Seidensticker: Archilochus and Odysseus
10: Ralph M. Rosen: Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos
11: Robin Osborne: The Use of Abuse: Semonides 7
12: Leslie Kurke: Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise
13: Andre Lardinois: Keening Sappho: Female Speech Genres in Sappho's Poetry
14: Anne Burnett: Jocasta in the West: The Lille Stesichorus
15: Deborah Steiner: Nautical Matters: Hesiod's Nautilia and Ibycus Fragment 282PMG
16: Giovanni Cerri: The Significance of the "Sphregis" in Theognis and the Safeguarding of Textual Authenticity in Antiquity
17: Margaret Williamson: Eros the Blacksmith: Performing Masculinity in Anakreon's Love Lyrics
18: Glenn W. Most: Simonides' Ode to Scopas in Contexts
Endmatter
General Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Educated at Oxford, he has held academic posts in both the UK and USA and beyond, including as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York from 2013 to 2014 and at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul in 2017. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and religion, cultural contact and comparison between Greece and other ancient
cultures, and ancient Anatolia.

Reviews

almost all of these papers are either especially interesting or important.
*Demetrios Yatromanolakes, Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina*