Iambus and Elegy New Approaches

Laura Swift is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University.

Chris Carey is Professor of Greek at University College London.

Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
I: Poetry in Performance
1. Cultic Contexts for Elegiac Performance, Ewen Bowie
2. Choral Elegy, Cecilia Nobili
3. Coarse Poetics: Listening to Hipponax, Deborah Boedeker
4. Archilochus and Homer in the Rhapsodic Context, Don Lavigne
II: Charting Genre, Creating Traditions
5. The Ancient Literary History of Iambos, Andrea Rotstein
6. Mapping Iambos: Mining the Minor Talents, Chris Carey
7. Simonides' Personal Elegies, David Sider
8. Writing Solon, Antonio Aloni and Alessandro Iannucci
9. Archilochus' Elegiac Fragments: Textual and Exegetical Notes, Anika Nicolosi
III: Cultural Interactions
10. Elegy and Epic: A Complex Relationship, Laura Lulli
11. Mythological Narratives in Hipponax, Margarita Alexandrou
12. Bupalus in Scheria: Hipponax's Odyssean Transcontextualizations, Tom Hawkins
13. Poetics and Precedents in Archilochus' Erotic Imagery, Laura Swift
IV: Ancient Receptions and Intertexts
14. Warding Off a Hailstorm of Blood: Pindar on Martial Elegy, Christopher Brown
15. The 'Ship of Fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's Republic 488a-489a, Paula da Cunha Correa
16. Anger, Bile, and the Poet's Body in the Archilochean Tradition, Julia Nelson Hawkins
Bibliography
Indexes