Description |
1 online resource (xv, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Contents |
Introduction : Continuity in the sympotic tradition / Vanessa Cazzato, Enrico Emanuele Prodi -- The symposion between East and West / Oswyn Murray -- Quo usque tandem ...? : how long were sympotic songs? / Ewen Bowie -- Some thoughts of the symposiastic catena, Aisakos, and Skolia / Gauthier Liberman -- Bacchylides' banquet songs / Giovan Battista D'Alessio -- The symposion as theme and performance context in Pindar's Epinicians / Lucia Athanassaki -- Smikros : fictional portrait of an artist as a symposiast by Euphronios / Guy Hedreen -- Symposia and the formation of poetic genre in Aristophanes' Wasps / Ralph M. Rosen -- Parting shots : Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384 98 and Symposia in the visual repertoire / Deborah T. Steiner -- Symposia en plein air in Alcaeus and others / Vanessa Cazzato -- The world in a cup : Ekpomatics in and out of the symposion / Renaud Gagne -- Party or perish : death, wine, and closure in Hellenistic sympotic epigram / Alexander Sens -- Hierarchy and symposiastic poetry, Greek and Latin / Gregory O. Hutchinson |
Summary |
'The Cup of Song' explores the symbiotic relationship of the symposion and poetry across Greek literary history. Each chapter discusses one aspect of sympotic engagement by key authors across the major genres of Greek poetry, leading to a characterization of the full spectrum of sympotic poetry from its beginnings through to the Hellenistic age |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Greek poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Symposium (Classical literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Symposium (Classical literature)
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cazzato, Vanessa, 1977-
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Obbink, Dirk.
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Prodi, Enrico Emanuele, 1985-
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University of Oxford, host institution.
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Sympotic Poetry (Conference) (2011 : Oxford, England)
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ISBN |
0191019526 |
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9780191019524 |
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9780191829383 |
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0191829382 |
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