Table of Contents

Introduction: definitions, methods, prejudices of reception; 1. A collection of unrecollected authors? The corpus and its problems; 2. New music and its myths: rhetoric, persona, and the theatre stage; 3. Musical lives: reading through the lives of the poets; 4. The language of new music: poetics of compounds and baroque aesthetics; 5. From authority to fantasy: narrative, voice, fictionality; 6. A canon set in stone? Epigraphy, literacy, musical tourism; Conclusion.

Promotional Information

This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture.

About the Author

Pauline A. LeVen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. She has published articles on Timotheus' language, Athenaeus and the reception of New Music, Aristotle's Hymn to Virtue and fourth-century epigraphy, and is now working on a monograph devoted to the anecdote as a narrative and social practice.

Reviews

'The reader will be impressed by the detailed analysis of the poems as well as by the insightful engagement with other sources … the publication of the first ever monograph to be devoted entirely to … late classical Greek lyric poetry deserves to be celebrated.' Theodora A. Hadjimichael, Greek and Roman Musical Studies