The Emergence of the Lyric Canon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9309628 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodora A Hadjimichael (0000-0001-9049-6748, Institute of History and Archaeology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Emergence of the Lyric Canon (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198810865.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2951741379 |
| ISBN | 9780198810865 |
| Open Library | OL28706071M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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 poetry: comedy, Plato, Aristotle’s Peripatos, and the Hellenistic scholars. It explores therefore the way in which fifth- and fourth-century sources received and interpreted lyric material, and the role they played both in the scholarly work of the Alexandrians and in the creation of what we conventionally call the Hellenistic Lyric Canon by considering the changing contexts within which lyric songs and texts operated. With the exception of Bacchylides, whose reception and Hellenistic reputation is analysed separately, it becomes clear that the canonization of the lyric poets follows a pattern of transmission and reception. The overall analysis demonstrates that the process of canonization was already at work in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BC and that the Lyric Canon remained stable and unchanged up to the Hellenistic era, when it was inherited by the Hellenistic scholars
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| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |