Theodora A Hadjimichael
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodora A Hadjimichael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodora A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadjimichael |
| SIGNATURE | HADJIMICHAEL T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9049-6748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality, written by S. Nooter
Bacchylides Playing Tragic
This paper focuses on features in Bacchylides’ poetry that have been mainly associated with the tragic genre: human error, the ignorance of tragic characters, the audience’s privileged knowledge at a tragic and lyric performance and its activation, tragic irony, and the audience’s participation in the completion of mythological narratives. As evidence of Bacchylides’ tragic aura I analyse the figures of Deianeira and Heracles in Odes 5 and 16 in …
The Peripatos
Chapter 4 analyses the importance of the Peripatos in the canonizing process of lyric, and the analysis demonstrates a degree of continuity between fifth- and fourth-century reception and evaluation of lyric poetry. The aim of the Peripatetics was to register, memorialize, and study the Greek culture by accumulating written records and creating learned treatises. Close analysis of several fragments shows that the Peripatetic library also possesse…
The Paradox of Bacchylides
Chapter 7 focuses on Bacchylides, who, despite his pan-Hellenic poetic presence, is neither quoted nor named in any of the sources that become crucial for the formation of the Lyric Canon. He is nonetheless included in the Lyric Canon, his text is edited according to principles of colometry, and his poems are classified and organized in books in Alexandria. Based on Hellenistic inscriptional and epigrammatic sources his poetry possibly circulated…
Conclusion
The Conclusion states the important points that were raised in each chapter, brings together all the conclusions, and contextualizes the overall analysis. It also emphasizes that the lyric selection that has been transmitted to us on the two Hellenistic epigrams as the Lyric Canon reflects a selection that was attained as set and non-negotiable much before the Hellenistic era, and was subsequently accepted as canonical. It closes by drawing atten…
The Hellenistic Era
Chapter 6 transports us to the Alexandrian Library. The first part focuses on the question of when and how book-rolls reached the Library, and the analysis foregrounds possible connections with the Peripatos and its library. Although we have cases of single travelling poems ( Olympian 5), lyric texts arrived to the Library largely as corpora, and scholarly work on lyric begun with Zenodotus, continued with Aristophanes of Byzantium, and was inten…
The Canonical Nine on the Comic Stage
Chapter 2 looks at the comic genre as a source of information about the Athenian audience’s knowledge and recognition of the lyric poets and their compositions. Comedy makes use of biographical and anecdotal features of several lyric poets who are parodied on stage, and demonstrates a profound awareness of generic features and also of cultic and performative characteristics of various lyric song-types. Lyric poets are contextualized in several co…
The World of Lyric
Chapter 1 offers a sketch of lyric geography. It positions the poetic activities and movements of the lyric poets on a map of Greece and Magna Graecia, and presents lyric poetry in its environment of composition and performance. The first part places lyric poetry in its local and pan-Hellenic contexts, and takes into account the environment within which local, wandering, and pan-Hellenic lyric poets moved, and the patrons and communities for whic…
Towards a Written Text
Chapter 5 considers the materiality of lyric poems, and discusses the coexistence of lyric song with the availability and circulation of lyric texts both within and outside Athens. The analysis presents the fifth-century literary and archaeological evidence on the existence of various kinds of books in everyday life, and distinguishes between public availability of (lyric) texts in Athenian book markets and copies owned by individuals in private …
The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
This book explores the process of canonization of Greek lyric, as well as the textual transmission, and preservation of the lyric poems from the archaic period through to their emergence from the Library at Alexandria as edited texts. It takes into account a broad range of primary material, and focuses on specific genres, authors, philosophical schools, and scholarly activities that played a critical role in the survival and canonization of lyric…
Paths of Song
Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and p…
Sports-writing
The avowed purpose of the epinician genre is to praise the athletic victory and the victor. The athletic event, however, is not mentioned in the victory ode, and this absence would suggest that an athletic description had no role within the economy and rhetoric of the poem. Nevertheless, the absence is not total. It has long been observed that Bacchylides is more prone than Pindar to describe the athletic victory. In general, however, scholars ha…
Aristophanes’ Bacchylides
The significance of Aristophanes in the history of ancient literary criticism cannot be doubted. Equally undoubted is also the dismissive attitude that he appears to have towards the musical and poetic innovations of the late-fifth century BC. This position of his becomes essential when one considers the manner in which he treats the appraised canonical lyric poets and the contemned representatives of the New Dithyramb. This paper is concerned wi…
Paths of Song
Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and p…
The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
This book explores the process of canonization of Greek lyric, as well as the textual transmission, and preservation of the lyric poems from the archaic period through to their emergence from the Library at Alexandria as edited texts. It takes into account a broad range of primary material, and focuses on specific genres, authors, philosophical schools, and scholarly activities that played a critical role in the survival and canonization of lyric…
Sports-writing
The avowed purpose of the epinician genre is to praise the athletic victory and the victor. The athletic event, however, is not mentioned in the victory ode, and this absence would suggest that an athletic description had no role within the economy and rhetoric of the poem. Nevertheless, the absence is not total. It has long been observed that Bacchylides is more prone than Pindar to describe the athletic victory. In general, however, scholars ha…
Aristophanes’ Bacchylides
The significance of Aristophanes in the history of ancient literary criticism cannot be doubted. Equally undoubted is also the dismissive attitude that he appears to have towards the musical and poetic innovations of the late-fifth century BC. This position of his becomes essential when one considers the manner in which he treats the appraised canonical lyric poets and the contemned representatives of the New Dithyramb. This paper is concerned wi…
Aristophanes’ Bacchylides
The significance of Aristophanes in the history of ancient literary criticism cannot be doubted. Equally undoubted is also the dismissive attitude that he appears to have towards the musical and poetic innovations of the late-fifth century BC. This position of his becomes essential when one considers the manner in which he treats the appraised canonical lyric poets and the contemned representatives of the New Dithyramb. This paper is concerned wi…
Sports-writing
The avowed purpose of the epinician genre is to praise the athletic victory and the victor. The athletic event, however, is not mentioned in the victory ode, and this absence would suggest that an athletic description had no role within the economy and rhetoric of the poem. Nevertheless, the absence is not total. It has long been observed that Bacchylides is more prone than Pindar to describe the athletic victory. In general, however, scholars ha…
Paths of Song
Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and p…
The Peripatos
Chapter 4 analyses the importance of the Peripatos in the canonizing process of lyric, and the analysis demonstrates a degree of continuity between fifth- and fourth-century reception and evaluation of lyric poetry. The aim of the Peripatetics was to register, memorialize, and study the Greek culture by accumulating written records and creating learned treatises. Close analysis of several fragments shows that the Peripatetic library also possesse…
The Paradox of Bacchylides
Chapter 7 focuses on Bacchylides, who, despite his pan-Hellenic poetic presence, is neither quoted nor named in any of the sources that become crucial for the formation of the Lyric Canon. He is nonetheless included in the Lyric Canon, his text is edited according to principles of colometry, and his poems are classified and organized in books in Alexandria. Based on Hellenistic inscriptional and epigrammatic sources his poetry possibly circulated…
Conclusion
The Conclusion states the important points that were raised in each chapter, brings together all the conclusions, and contextualizes the overall analysis. It also emphasizes that the lyric selection that has been transmitted to us on the two Hellenistic epigrams as the Lyric Canon reflects a selection that was attained as set and non-negotiable much before the Hellenistic era, and was subsequently accepted as canonical. It closes by drawing atten…
The Hellenistic Era
Chapter 6 transports us to the Alexandrian Library. The first part focuses on the question of when and how book-rolls reached the Library, and the analysis foregrounds possible connections with the Peripatos and its library. Although we have cases of single travelling poems ( Olympian 5), lyric texts arrived to the Library largely as corpora, and scholarly work on lyric begun with Zenodotus, continued with Aristophanes of Byzantium, and was inten…
The Canonical Nine on the Comic Stage
Chapter 2 looks at the comic genre as a source of information about the Athenian audience’s knowledge and recognition of the lyric poets and their compositions. Comedy makes use of biographical and anecdotal features of several lyric poets who are parodied on stage, and demonstrates a profound awareness of generic features and also of cultic and performative characteristics of various lyric song-types. Lyric poets are contextualized in several co…
The World of Lyric
Chapter 1 offers a sketch of lyric geography. It positions the poetic activities and movements of the lyric poets on a map of Greece and Magna Graecia, and presents lyric poetry in its environment of composition and performance. The first part places lyric poetry in its local and pan-Hellenic contexts, and takes into account the environment within which local, wandering, and pan-Hellenic lyric poets moved, and the patrons and communities for whic…
Towards a Written Text
Chapter 5 considers the materiality of lyric poems, and discusses the coexistence of lyric song with the availability and circulation of lyric texts both within and outside Athens. The analysis presents the fifth-century literary and archaeological evidence on the existence of various kinds of books in everyday life, and distinguishes between public availability of (lyric) texts in Athenian book markets and copies owned by individuals in private …
The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
This book explores the process of canonization of Greek lyric, as well as the textual transmission, and preservation of the lyric poems from the archaic period through to their emergence from the Library at Alexandria as edited texts. It takes into account a broad range of primary material, and focuses on specific genres, authors, philosophical schools, and scholarly activities that played a critical role in the survival and canonization of lyric…
Bacchylides Playing Tragic
This paper focuses on features in Bacchylides’ poetry that have been mainly associated with the tragic genre: human error, the ignorance of tragic characters, the audience’s privileged knowledge at a tragic and lyric performance and its activation, tragic irony, and the audience’s participation in the completion of mythological narratives. As evidence of Bacchylides’ tragic aura I analyse the figures of Deianeira and Heracles in Odes 5 and 16 in …
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