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Lyric Vision: an Introduction 1 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/157607 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2021-10-03 and may be subject to change. The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual Mnemosyne Supplements monographs on greek and latin language and literature Executive Editor G.J. Boter (vu University Amsterdam) Editorial Board A. Chaniotis (Oxford) K.M. Coleman (Harvard) I.J.F. de Jong (University of Amsterdam) T. Reinhardt (Oxford) volume 391 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/mns The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 1 Edited by Vanessa Cazzato André Lardinois With an Introduction by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi leiden | boston This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (cc-by-nc 3.0) License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cazzato, Vanessa, 1977- editor. | Lardinois, A. P. M. H., editor. Title: The look of lyric : Greek song and the visual. Studies in archaic and classical Greek song / edited by Vanessa Cazzato, Andre Lardinois ; with an introduction by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi. Other titles: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 391. Description: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2016- | Series: Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 391 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016004344 (print) | LCCN 2016005703 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004311633 ((hardback) : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004314849 ((e-book)) Subjects: LCSH: Greek poetry–History and criticism. | Greek drama–History and criticism. Classification: LCC PA3110 .L66 2016 (print) | LCC PA3110 (ebook) | DDC 884/.0109–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016004344 Want or need Open Access? Brill Open offers you the choice to make your research freely accessible online in exchange for a publication charge. Review your various options on brill.com/brill-open. Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0169-8958 isbn 978-90-04-31163-3 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-31484-9 (e-book) Copyright 2016 by the Editors and Authors. This work is published by Koninklijke Brill nv. 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Contents Preface vii List of Figures viii List of Contributors x 1 Lyric Vision: An Introduction 1 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi 2 Political and Dramatic Perspectives on Archaic Sculptures: Bacchylides’Fourth Dithyramb (Ode 18) and the Treasury of the Athenians in Delphi 16 Lucia Athanassaki 3 The Fight of Telephus: Poetic Visions behind the Pergamon Frieze 50 Laura Lulli 4 Choral Performance and Geometric Patterns in Epic Poetry and Iconographic Representations 69 Jesús Carruesco 5 Making Monkeys: Archilochus frr. 185–187 w. in Performance 108 Deborah Steiner 6 Observing Genre in Archaic Greek Skolia and Vase-Painting 146 Gregory S. Jones 7 ‘Glancing Seductively through Windows’: The Look of Praxilla fr. 8 (pmg 754) 185 Vanessa Cazzato 8 How to Construct a Sympotic Space with Words 204 Jenny Strauss Clay 9 Turning Sound into Sight in the Chorus’ Entrance Song of Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes 217 Caroline Trieschnigg vi contents 10 Light and Vision in Pindar’s Olympian Odes: Interplays of Imagination and Performance 238 Michel Briand 11 Visual Imagery in Parthenaic Song 255 Laura Swift 12 The Amorous Gaze: A Poetic and Pragmatic Koinê for Erotic Melos? 288 Claude Calame 13 Visualizing the Cologne Sappho: Mental Imagery through Chorality, the Sun, and Orpheus 307 Anton Bierl 14 Female Choruses and Gardens of Nymphs: Visualizing Chorality in Sappho 343 Katerina Ladianou 15 Imagining Images: Anacreontea 16 and 17 370 Ippokratis Kantzios Index 387 Preface This volume inaugurates a series within Brill’s Mnemosyne Supplements which records the proceedings of the conferences of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song (http://greeksong.ruhosting.nl/). Three fur- ther volumes in the series are in preparation: on authorship and authority in Greek lyric poetry, on the reception and transmission of Greek lyric poetry from 600bc to 400ad, and on the newest Sappho fragments published in 2014 (P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105). The Network was founded in 2007 as a means of facilitating interaction between scholars interested in the study of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. Most of the papers included here were originally presented at the first open conference of the Network, held on 17th–20th July 2009 at the European Cultural Centre of Del- phi. This was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (nwo) and Stanford University, and organised by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi and Richard Martin. Theirs was the choice of theme, the formulation of the call for papers, and the initial selection of abstracts. The publication of the vol- ume was then planned by them jointly with André Lardinois and the papers underwent a process of peer reviewing at the hands of the ‘core members’ of the network as well as an anonymous reviewer for the Press. The final process of shaping the volume and editing the typescript for submission was under- taken by Vanessa Cazzato and André Lardinois, one of the network’s founders and the initiator of the series. Two students, Hendri Dekker and Marieke Grau- mans, helped with the preparation of the index. We would like to thank the Faculty of Arts of Radboud University for providing the funds which enabled this volume to be made available through Open Access. V.C. A.L. List of Figures 2.1 Reconstruction of the Athenian Treasury by A. Tournaire (1902) 21 2.2 Theseus and Procrustes or Sciron. Metope from the Athenian Treasury at Delphi, South Side, Archaeological Museum of Delphi 25 2.3 Theseus and Cercyon. Metope from the Athenian Treasury at Delphi, South Side, Archaeological Museum of Delphi 26 2.4 Athena and Theseus. Metope from the Athenian Treasury at Delphi. South Side, Archaeological Museum of Delphi 27 2.5 Display of the Metopes in the Delphi Archaeological Museum 28 2.6 Display of the Metopes in the Delphi Archaeological Museum, detail 29 3.1 Hiera, Telephus’ wife, against the Greek warriors, from the Pergamon Great Altar 61 3.2 Hiera’s funeral, from the Pergamon Great Altar 62 3.3 The death of two warriors, from the Pergamon Great Altar 63 3.4 The death of Aktaios, from the Pergamon Great Altar 64 3.5 The wounding of Telephus by Achilles, from the Pergamon Great Altar 65 4.1a Attic oinochoe, c. 740bc, from Dipylon 85 4.1b Inscription on Attic oinochoe, c. 740bc, from Dipylon 86 4.2 Corinthian aryballos, with representation of dance and inscription. c. 590–580bc 87 4.3 Argive crater (Late Geometric), from grave t45 in Argos 88 4.4 Attic crater (lg1b), c. 740bc, from Kerameikos 91 4.5 Attic chest (mg i) with model granaries 92 4.6 Attic pyxis (mg ii), c. 760–50bc 93 4.7 Late Geometric oinochoe, c. 750bc 94 4.8 Euboean lg crater from Cyprus by the Cesnola Painter 95 4.9 Attic crater (LGIb), c. 740b, from Dipylon 97 4.10 Oinochoe, c. 735–720bc. Boston 25.42, Richard Norton Memorial Fund 98 4.11 Kantharos. Boiotian. Late 8th century b.c. 99 4.12 Dancing warriors. lg cup 101 4.13 Boeotian lg pythoid jar, from Thebes 102 4.14 Couples dancing. Neck of Attic (epa) loutrophoros, by the Analatos Painter 103 4.15 Heracles and Triton. Attic Black figure kylix 104 4.16 Attic Red figure kylix 105 5.1 Terracotta kantharos with monkey face 129 5.2a Cup dated to circa 520 130 5.2b Cup dated to circa 520 131 list of figures ix 5.3 Terracotta figure vase of a monkey, ca 565–550 132 5.4a Corinthian oil flask 133 5.4b Corinthian oil flask 134 5.4c Corinthian oil flask 134 5.5 Red-figure hydria 135 5.6a Hydria depicting the Calydonian boar hunt 139 5.6b Hydria depicting the Calydonian boar hunt 140 6.1a Red-figure krater by Euphronios 171 6.1b Detail of red-figure krater by Euphronios 172 6.2a Red-figure kylix by the Epeleios Painter 176 6.2b Tondo of red-figure kylix by the Epeleios Painter (tondo) 178 7.1a Side a of unattributed red-figure kylix 189 7.1b Side b of unattributed red-figure kylix 190 7.1c Tondo of unattributed red-figure kylix 191 List of Contributors Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete, Rethymnon. Her research interests focus on choral performance, its artistic context and its ideological and political agenda. Anton Bierl is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Basel. His research inter- ests include Homeric epic, drama, song and performance culture, and the ancient novel. His books include Dionysos und die griechische Tragödie (1991); Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Bühne (1996); Der Chor in der Alten Komödie (2001; English second ed.
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