Bacchylides Politics Performance Poetic Tradition 1st Edition by David Fearn ISBN 978-0199215508 0199215502

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ISBN 10:  0199215502

ISBN 13: 978-0199215508

Author: David Fearn

Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides’ poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides’ praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides’ Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros (‘circular chorus’) and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

Table of contents: 

Tradition and Contextualization

I. Bacchylides Fragment 5

II. Poetic Tradition and Patronage

PART I. PRAISE

1. The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B)

I. polyphonic wine: Symposium and Fantasy in Lines 1-16-

II. Praise, Parainesis, Cult: Lines 17 and following

III. Synthesis: Brilliant and Barbarian?

Conclusion

2. Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception:

Bacchylides 13

I. Aiginetan Contexts

II. The Poem

III. The Aristocracy of Culture: Bacchylides’ Aiginetan Rhetoric

PART II. BACCHYLIDES’ DITHYRAMBS AND THE KUKLIOS KHOROS

3. Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros Performance, Genre, and Reception

I. The Kuklios Khoros and Dithyrambic Definition

II. Theories of Decline

III. The Alexandrian Classifiers

IV. Later Reception

V. Genre, Style, and the Unity of Bacchylides’ Dithyrambs

4. Contexts

I. Sparta and Bacchylides 20

II. Athens

III. Delos and the Athenians: Bacchylides 17

5. Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens

I. Homer and Solon as Athenian Cultural Capital

II. Homer and Solon: Textual Conflict Resolution?

III. Athenian Cultural Contexts

Conclusion

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