Research Catalog

Title

Drama and performance in Hellenistic poetry / edited by M.A Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker.

Publication

• Leuven : Peeters, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harder, Annette
• Regtuit, R. F. (Remco F.)
• Wakker, G. C.

Description

x, 344 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume is devoted to aspects of performance in Hellenistic poetry. This theme is approached from various angles. Although drama has long been regarded as typical of fifth century Athens, there is an increasing awareness among classical scholars of the importance of drama also for the Hellenistic period. In that period too drama was still written and performed, but at the same time it also was an important object of study and a source of inspiration for works in other genres, such as the epic of Apollonius Rhodius, for new literary forms like the idylls of Theocritus or the mimiambs of Herodas, or for literary experiments such as the extended messenger speech in the Alexandra of Lycophron. Besides, performance was never restricted to drama, but from the archaic period onwards was essential to the presentation of poetry to an audience and thus remained an integral part of Greek cultural life in all periods, also in times of increasing literacy like the Hellenistic period. Therefore in this volume also epic and didactic poetry as well as shorter works from, e.g., a cultic, ritual or sympotic sphere have been studied from the point of view of performance. The various articles show that the focus on performance is a fruitful perspective for looking at Hellenistic poetry.

Series Statement

Hellenistica Groningana ; 23

Uniform Title

Hellenistica Groningana ; v. 23.

Subjects

• Theater
• Theater > Greece > History and criticism
• Greece
• Greek poetry, Hellenistic > Study and teaching
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Greek poetry, Hellenistic > History and criticism
• Greek drama > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Contributions in English with 1 in French.

Contents

Preface / Annette Harder -- The motif of paraclausithyron as hint of performance in the Hellenistic poetry / Sofia Belioti -- Drama, performance and authorial self-representation in Herodas Mimaimb 8 / Barnaby Chersterton -- The performance life of the Hellenistic period through inscriptions : the case study of Delphi and Delos / Angela Cinalli -- Y a-t-il des modalités de la performance vocale féminine dans la poésie hellénistique? : une parole contrainte / Christophe Cusset -- The poetics of lamentation : performances and ritual in Bion's eoitah on Adonis / Andreas Fountoulakis -- Rethinking 'mimetic poetry' and Callymachus' hymn to Apollo / Adrian Gramps -- Enacting drama : Herod 1 and A.P.V. 181 (ascl. 25, gow-page) / David Kutzko -- Watching tragedy in Lycophron's Alexandra / Katherine Molesworth -- Silencing Orpheus : the fiction of performance in Apollonius' Argonautica / Jackie Murry -- The shadow of Aristophanes : Hellenistic poetry's reception of comic poets / Thomas J. Nelson -- Spectators-in-performance in Theocritus' adoniazusae / Maria Papadopoulou -- Mimeticism. performance and re-performance in Callimachus' hymn to Apollo and inscribed paians / Alan Sheppard -- Reading and performing didactic poetry in the Hellenistic period / Kathryn Wilson.

Call Number

JFE 19-1625

ISBN

• 9042936541
• 9789042936546

OCLC

1055457459

Title

Drama and performance in Hellenistic poetry / edited by M.A Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Hellenistica Groningana ; 23

Hellenistica Groningana ; v. 23.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Contributions in English with 1 in French.

Added Author

Harder, Annette, editor.

Regtuit, R. F. (Remco F.), editor.

Wakker, G. C., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1625