Paths of Song : : The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy / / ed. by Rosa Andújar, Theodora A. Hadjimichael, Thomas R. P. Coward.

Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 58
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I Tragic and Lyric Poets in Dialogue
  • Stesichorus and Greek Tragedy
  • ‘Stesichorean’ Footsteps in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
  • Pindar at Colonus: A Sophoclean Response to Olympians 2 and 3
  • Talking Thalassocracy in Fifth-century Athens: From Bacchylides’ ‘Theseus Odes’ (17 & 18) and Cimonian Monuments to Euripides’ Troades
  • II Refiguring Lyric Genres in Tragedy
  • Competing Generic Narratives in Aeschylus’ Oresteia
  • How Sophocles Begins: Reshaping Lyric Genres in Tragic Choruses
  • Constructing Chorality in Prometheus Bound: The Poetic Background of Divine Choruses in Tragedy
  • Epinician Discourse in Euripides’ Tragedies: The Case of Alexandros
  • III Performing the Chorus: Ritual, Song, and Dance
  • Theoric song and the Rhetoric of Ritual in Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women
  • What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women
  • Hyporchematic Footprints in Euripides’ Electra
  • Dancing in Delphi, Dancing in Thebes: The Lyric Chorus in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
  • Performing the Wedding Song in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
  • New Music in Sophocles’ Ichneutae
  • Afterword: On the Nonexistence of Tragic Odes
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Proper Names and Subjects
  • Index Locorum