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CX272-30 Songs, Texts, Theories: Greek Lyric Poetry 20/21 Department Classics & Ancient History Level Undergraduate Level 2 Module leader David Fearn Credit value 30 Module duration 23 weeks Assessment 75% coursework, 25% exam Study location University of Warwick main campus, Coventry Description Introductory description What is Greek lyric poetry? What are its powers, its claims, its purposes? How does it sing or speak? What are its effects? Who are its most significant and celebrated practitioners, and how best should we appreciate their works? What is distinctive about Greek lyric: as a form of cultural expression, as genre, literary form, a body of texts, a set of voices, as emotional content? How might we model its relations with other social and cultural aspects of archaic and classical Greece, such as religion, performance, politics, sexuality, sport? How should we conceptualize it, in relation to broader categories such as song / rhythm / meter / music / literature / rhetoric / history? How do we, should we, can we relate to its intensities of emotional expression, its modes of address, its uses of myth and imagery, its attitudes to materiality, its sense of its own time, and its contextualizations? What, even, might we learn about Classics, as an idea, from thinking about Greek lyric? Module web page Module aims The main focus of this module will be the close reading of the lyric poetry of Greece from c. 700–350BC, covering such luminous names as Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Ibycus, Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Timotheus, but the module will also involve sustained encounters with wider theoretical debates in the history of literature and criticism both within and beyond Classics. The main focus of term 1 will be close reading of primary materials and the history of lyric scholarship; the focus of term 2 will be on revisiting the groundwork of term 1 in the light of broader interpretative frameworks and thematics, including sustained engagement with a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives. The module thus aims to engage students in the interpretation of Greek lyric poetry both within ancient conceptualizations and categorizations and within modern critical-theoretical frameworks beyond Classics, and students will accordingly be expected to participate in and commit to the challenges of critical and theoretical debate on a weekly basis. Outline syllabus This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ. Primary Texts to be studied in translation: (prescribed translations are West (OUP) and Carson, If Not, Winter for Sappho; supplemented – via course extracts – by excerpts from Nisetich for Pindar, Victory Odes; Race for Pindar, fragments; and Campbell (Loeb) for Bacchylides and Timotheus: further details below in §21) Archilochus, fragments; Stesichorus, fragments; Sappho, fragments 1, 2, 16, 31, 55, 96, 105a plus New Sappho fragments published since 2009; Alcaeus fragments 326, 332, 333, 350, 357; Ibycus fragments 282a (=S151), 286; Anacreon fragments 357, 358, 359, 395, 413, 417; Simonides fragments 531, 543, 581; Bacchylides Ode 5 and fragment 20B; Pindar, Olympians 1 and 6, Pythians 1 and 8, Nemean 8, Paean 9, and fragment 123; Timotheus, Persae. Primary Texts, Original Greek (for Q800/Q801) Knowledge of all the above in translation, plus specific knowledge of the following in the original Greek: Stesichorus, Geryoneis fr. 19 lines 31–47; Sappho fragments 1, 2, 16, 31, 55, 96, 105a, plus New Sappho Tithonus poem (fragment 58); Alcaeus fragments 326, 332, 333, 350, 357; Ibycus fragments 282a (=S151) and 286; Anacreon fragments 357, 358, 359, 395, 413, 417; Simonides fragments 531, 543, 581; Bacchylides Ode 5; Pindar, Olympian 1, Nemean 8, Paean 9, and fragment 123. Indicative outline of lectures/seminars: TERM 1 GREEK LYRIC 1. POETS AND POEMS: QUESTIONS OF FORM, COORDINATES FOR INTERPRETATION Week 1. Orientation; Sappho 1: ‘One More Time’: an introduction to Sapphic poetics Week 2. Sappho 2: distance and consolation Week 3. Alcaeus: sympotic groups, poetry and politics, sympotic attitudes Week 4. Stesichorus: myth, narrative, ornamentation, interpretability Week 5. Archilochus, Ibycus, Anacreon: praise, blame, identities, subjectivities Week 6. READING WEEK - NO LECTURES/CLASSES Week 7. Simonides and Bacchylides: lyric form, praise, history, contexts, reception Week 8. Pindar 1: myths and contexts (including discussion of Olympian 1 as case study) Week 9. Pindar 2: voices and attitudes (including discussion of Nemean 8 as case study) Week 10. Timotheus’ Persae and the New Music TERM 2 GREEK LYRIC 2. LYRIC AND…: CONNECTIONS TO BROADER CRITICAL-THEORETICAL ISSUES Week 1. Lyric and Desire: lack, loss, intensity, affect Week 2. Lyric and Time: topicalities, transcendence, and ‘the lyric now’ Week 3. Lyric, Rhetoric, and Exemplarity: classical scholarship, the New Criticism, and Deconstruction Week 4. Lyric and Fiction: ‘the lyric event’ and contemporary theory Week 5. Lyric and Nature: the ethics of imagery Week 6. READING WEEK - NO LECTURES/CLASSES Week 7. Lyric and Gender: Sappho revisited (again); skills workshop for extended essay-writing. Week 8. Lyric and Performance: literarity, anthropology, ritual Week 9. Lyric and Sound: auditory aesthetics, rhythm, and music (focus on Sappho, Pindar, Timotheus) Week 10. Lyric and Art: comparative interdisciplinarities (including relations with archaic and classical Greek material culture, and also coverage of lyric reception in Cy Twombly) TERM 3 Week 1. Thematic Overviews in relation to close-reading Week 2. Exam Preparation: close-reading techniques and resources Week 3. Exam Preparation: practical close-reading workshops Learning outcomes By the end of the module, students should be able to: • a broad understanding of the major poems and fragments of Greek lyric poetry, and their relevance for a range of issues pertinent to Classical literary study, including ancient socio- cultural significance (politics, sport, patronage, religion, sympotic lifestyle, sexuality), and contributions to broader debates in critical theory and classical reception. • the ability to discuss connections between the poetic form and content of Greek lyric and their interpretative contexts in antiquity; the history of scholarship; and the pertinence of modern critical-theoretical perspectives. • developed skills in close reading of literary texts, whether in translation, or in the original Greek (for Q800/Q801 students). • gained awareness of comparative dimensions in the study of ancient Greek literature, culture, and thought. Indicative reading list Critical Works (Texts and Commentaries): Budelmann, F. (2018) Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge): main set edition for original Greek students (other commentaries via module convenor/course extracts). Campbell, D. A. (1982–1993) Greek Lyric (Loeb; Cambridge, MA.). In five volumes: I Sappho and Alcaeus (1982), II Anacreon, Anacreontea and Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman (1988); III Stesichorus, Ibycus and Simonides (1991); IV Bacchylides, Corinna and Others (1992); V The New School of Poetry and Anonymous Songs (1993) (Greek texts and translation) Hutchinson, G. O. (2001) Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces (Oxford). Maehler, H. (2004) Bacchylides: A Selection (Cambridge). Instone, S. (1996) Pindar: Selected Odes. Olympian One, Pythian Nine, Nemeans Two & Three, Isthmian One (Warminster). Race, W. H. (1997) Pindar (2 vols.; Loeb; Cambridge, MA). (Greek texts and translation) Lexicon: Slater, W. J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar (Berlin) – available online via Perseus and Logeion smartphone app. Other Translations Carson, A. (2002) If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (New York), supplemented by course extracts for new material. Nisetich, F. (1980) Pindar’s Victory Songs (Baltimore). West, M. L. (2008) Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford). Contemporary Theoretical Approaches (sample) Burt, S. (2016) ‘What is this thing called lyric?’, Modern Philology 113: 422–40. Culler, J. (2015) Theory of the Lyric (Cambridge). Felski, R. (2015) ‘“Context stinks!”’, in The Limits of Critique (Chicago), 151–85. Grethlein, J. (2015) ‘Aesthetic experiences, ancient and modern’, New Literary History 46: 309–33. Jackson, V. and Prins, Y. (2013) The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology (Baltimore). Michael, J. (2017) ‘Lyric history: temporality, rhetoric, and the ethics of poetry’, New Literary History 48.2: 265–84. Peponi, A.-E. (2012) Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought (Oxford and New York). General Classics bibliography, including approaches to ancient Greek contexts Agocs, P., Carey, C. and Rawles, R. (eds.) (2012) Reading the Victory Ode (Cambridge). Billings, J., Budelmann, F. and Macintosh F. (eds) (2013) Choruses, Ancient and Modern (Oxford). Bowra, C. M. (1961) Greek Lyric Poetry (2nd ed.; Oxford). Budelmann, F. (ed.) (2009) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge). Budelmann, F. and Phillips, T. (eds.) (2018) Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece (Oxford). Burnett, A. P. (1983) Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho (London). Carson, A. (1986) Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton, NJ). Gentili, B. (1988) Poetry and its Public in Ancient Greece (Baltimore). Goldhill, S. (1991) The Poet’s Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature (Cambridge). Gurd, S. A. (2015) Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (New York). Phillips, T.
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