The Cup of Song : Studies on Poetry and the Symposion

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 context. __The Cup of____Song__ explores the symbiotic relationship of the symposion and poetry throughout Greek literary history, considering the former 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 from its very beginnings through to the Hellenistic age that retains an eye both to its shared common features and to the specificity of individual genres and texts. '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. Introduction: Continuity In The Sympotic Tradition / Vanessa Cazzato And 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. Edited By Vanessa Cazzato, Dirk Obbink And Enrico Emanuele Prodi. Contains Revised Versions Of Some Papers That Were Presented At The Sympotic Poetry Conference Held At Oxford In January 2011--cited From The Acknowledgements And Https://rogueclassicism.com/2011/01/21/conf-sympotic-poetry-2/ (viewed On 12/12/16) Contains Bibliographical References (pages 271-299) And Indexes. 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 context. The Cup of Song explores the symbiotic relationship of the symposion and poetry throughout Greek literary history, considering the former 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 from its very beginnings through to the Hellenistic age that retains an eye both to its shared common features and to the specificity of individual genres and texts. 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.