Pauline A LeVen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline A LeVen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline A |
| FAMILY NAME | LeVen |
| SIGNATURE | LEVEN P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens…
Echo and the Invention of the Lyric Listener
This chapter investigates the notion of lyric listening and concentrates on the particular role of the adverb δηὖτε (‘once again’) in constructing a poetics of delayed repetition in several archaic melic poets (Alcman, Sappho, and Anacreon). Building on the model provided by a reading of the mythical nymph Echo in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe to understand the seduction and role of delay and repetition in lyric listening, it is argued that ‘once aga…
The City and the Stage
Reviewed by: The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws by Marcus Folch Pauline A. Leven Marcus Folch. The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 392. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-026617-2. Long neglected as a scarecrow among Plato’s works, the Laws—his longest, last, and unfinished dialogue that presents the fantasy of the second-best city, Magnesia—ha…
Introduction
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The Many-Headed Muse
This is the first monograph entirely devoted to the corpus of late classical Greek lyric poetry. Not only have the dithyrambs and kitharodic nomes of the New Musicians Timotheus and Philoxenus, the hymns of Aristotle and Ariphron, and the epigraphic paeans of Philodamus of Scarpheia and Isyllus of Epidaurus never been studied together, they have also remained hidden behind a series of critical prejudices – political, literary and aesthetic. Profe…
Aristotle’s Hymn to Virtue and Funerary Inscriptions
The Colors of Sound
Poikilos and poikilia are, respectively, an adjective and a noun commonly used to describe characteristics of both visual and aural phenomena. But how do the two uses (as term of color and term of sound) relate to each other, and does poikilos metaphorically describe the “colors” of sounds? In examining the semantics and ideological connotations of poikilos and poikilia , as well as the contribution they make to an archaeology of the senses, this…
“You Make Less Sense than a (New) Dithyramb”
Notes and Discussions
The Many-Headed Muse
This is the first monograph entirely devoted to the corpus of late classical Greek lyric poetry. Not only have the dithyrambs and kitharodic nomes of the New Musicians Timotheus and Philoxenus, the hymns of Aristotle and Ariphron, and the epigraphic paeans of Philodamus of Scarpheia and Isyllus of Epidaurus never been studied together, they have also remained hidden behind a series of critical prejudices – political, literary and aesthetic. Profe…
The Colors of Sound
Poikilos and poikilia are, respectively, an adjective and a noun commonly used to describe characteristics of both visual and aural phenomena. But how do the two uses (as term of color and term of sound) relate to each other, and does poikilos metaphorically describe the “colors” of sounds? In examining the semantics and ideological connotations of poikilos and poikilia , as well as the contribution they make to an archaeology of the senses, this…
Notes and Discussions
“You Make Less Sense than a (New) Dithyramb”
Aristotle’s Hymn to Virtue and Funerary Inscriptions
The Colors of Sound
Poikilos and poikilia are, respectively, an adjective and a noun commonly used to describe characteristics of both visual and aural phenomena. But how do the two uses (as term of color and term of sound) relate to each other, and does poikilos metaphorically describe the “colors” of sounds? In examining the semantics and ideological connotations of poikilos and poikilia , as well as the contribution they make to an archaeology of the senses, this…
Introduction
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Many-Headed Muse
This is the first monograph entirely devoted to the corpus of late classical Greek lyric poetry. Not only have the dithyrambs and kitharodic nomes of the New Musicians Timotheus and Philoxenus, the hymns of Aristotle and Ariphron, and the epigraphic paeans of Philodamus of Scarpheia and Isyllus of Epidaurus never been studied together, they have also remained hidden behind a series of critical prejudices – political, literary and aesthetic. Profe…
Echo and the Invention of the Lyric Listener
This chapter investigates the notion of lyric listening and concentrates on the particular role of the adverb δηὖτε (‘once again’) in constructing a poetics of delayed repetition in several archaic melic poets (Alcman, Sappho, and Anacreon). Building on the model provided by a reading of the mythical nymph Echo in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe to understand the seduction and role of delay and repetition in lyric listening, it is argued that ‘once aga…
The City and the Stage
Reviewed by: The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws by Marcus Folch Pauline A. Leven Marcus Folch. The City and the Stage: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato’s Laws. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 392. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-026617-2. Long neglected as a scarecrow among Plato’s works, the Laws—his longest, last, and unfinished dialogue that presents the fantasy of the second-best city, Magnesia—ha…
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens…
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