About the Book
In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets' Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attention is given to the poets Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Timotheus. Consideration is given to their reception in authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aelius Aristides, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Statius, as well as their discussion by Peripatetic scholars, the Hellenistic scholia to Pindar, Horace's commentator Porphyrio, and Eustathius on Pindar.
About the Author: Bruno Currie, DPhil (2000), Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Classics at that university. His research interests include early Greek epic and lyric poetry and Greek religion. He is the author of Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (OUP, 2005) and Homer's Allusive Art (OUP, 2016).
Ian Rutherford, DPhil (1986), Oxford University, Professor of Classics at Reading University, works on Greek poetry and religion and its Mediterranean/W. Asiatic contexts. Recent books include State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece (2013) and Greco-Egyptian Interactions (2016).
List of Contributors: Andre Lardinois, Eveline van Hilten-Rutten, Gregory Nagy, Claude Calame, Krystyna Bartol, Theodora Hadjimichael, ElsaBouchard, David Fearn, Andrea Capra, Maria Kazanskaya, Ewen Bowie, Gregor Bitto, Stefano Caciagli, Renate Schlesier, Jessica Romney, Jacqueline Klooster, Francesca Modini, Tom Phillips, Enrico Prodi, Johannes Breuer, Arlette Neumann-Hartmann.
