Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-376), appendix, and index.
Part I. Poetry in performance. Cultic contexts for elegiac performance / Ewen Bowie -- Choral elegy : the tyranny of the handbook / Cecilia Nobili -- Coarse poetics : listening to Hipponax / Deborah Boedeker -- Archilochus and Homer in the rhapsodic context / Donald Lavigne.
Part II. Charting genre, creating traditions. The ancient literary history of Iambos / Andrea Rotstein -- Mapping Iambos : mining the minor talents / Chris Carey -- Simonides' personal elegies / David Sider -- Writing Solon / Atonio Aloni and Alessandro Lannucci -- Archilochus' elegiac fragments : textual and exegetical notes / Anika Nicolosi.
Part III. Cultural interactions. Elegy and epic : a complex relationship / Laura Lulli -- Mythological narratives in Hipponax / Margarita Alexandrou -- Bupalus in Scheria : Hipponax's Odyssean transcontextualizations / Tom Hawkins -- Poetics and precedents in archilochus' erotic imagery / Laura Swift.
Part IV. Ancient receptions and intertexts. Warding off a hailstorm of blood : Pindar on martial elegy / Christopher G. Brown -- The 'ship of fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's republic 488a-489a / Paula da Cunha Corrêa -- Anger, bile, and the poet's body in the Archilochean tradition / Julia Nelson Hawkins -- Appendix : plans of the Heracleion at Thasos.
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For over two centuries, elegy and iambus attracted some of the finest poetic talents in Greek history. This edited collection provides a comprehensive exploration devoted specifically to these two genres, offering an important insight into the key issues within current research.