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This page intentionally left blank SOLON AND EARLY GREEK POETRY ThepoetryofarchaicGreecegives voiceto thehistoryandpolitics ofthe cultureofthatage.Thisbookexploresthetypesofhistorythathavebeen, andcanbe,writtenfromarchaicGreekpoetry,andtherolepoetryhadin articulating the social and political realities and ideologies of that period. Indoingsoitpaysparticularattentiontothestanceofexhortationadopted inearlyGreekelegy,andtothepoliticalpoetryofSolon;italsostressesthe importanceofconsideringperformancecontextasacriticalfactorininter- pretingthepoliticalexpressionsofthispoetry.PartIofthisstudyarguesthat thesingingofelegiacparaenesisinthee´litesymposiumreflectstheattemptof symposiaststoassertaheroicidentityforthemselveswithinthiswiderpolis community.Parts II and III turntothepoliticalpoetryofSolon;Part II demonstrateshowtheelegyofSolonbothconfirmstheexistenceofthise´lite practice,andsubvertsit,drawingonthepoetictraditionsofepicandHesiod tofurtherdifferentpoliticalaims;Part IIIlooksbeyondSolon’sappropria- tionsofpoetictraditionstoargueforanotherinfluenceonSolon’spolitical poetry,thatoftyranny.Thebookconcludesbyexploringtheimplicationsof this reading of elegy for a political interpretation of the Homeric epics in Athens. ELIZABETHIRWINisaResearchFellowatGirtonCollege,Cambridge.She istheauthorofarticlesonGreekliteratureandacontributortoTheHesiodic CatalogueofWomen(editorRichardHunter;Cambridge,forthcoming). CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL STUDIES Generaleditors R.L. HUNTER, R.G. OSBORNE, M.D. REEVE, P.D.A. GARNSEY, M. MILLETT, D.N. SEDLEY, G.C. HORROCKS SOLON AND EARLY GREEK POETRY The Politics of Exhortation ELIZABETH IRWIN GirtonCollege,Cambridge cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambrid ge.org/9780521851787 © Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge 2005 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublishedinprintformat 2005 isbn-13 978-0-511-13457-9 eBook(EBL) isbn-10 0-511-13457-6 eBook(EBL) isbn-13 978-0-521-85178-7 hardback isbn-10 0-521-85178-5 hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurls forexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS Acknowledgements pageix Listofabbreviationsandeditions xi Introduction 1 15 PART I THE POLITICS OF EXHORTATION Introduction 17 1 Understandingthepoliticalinmartialexhortation elegy 19 2 Synthesisingcontentandcontext 35 3 Contextualisingthecity:archaicverseinscriptions andthe‘rise’ofthepolis 63 PART II POLITICAL POETICS: SOLON’S EUNOMIA 83 Introduction 85 4 Solon4andmartialpoetry 91 5 Solon’sOdyssey 113 6 Solon4andHesiod 155 199 PART III POETRY AND POLITICAL CULTURE Introduction 201 7 Solonandthelanguageoftyranny 205 8 Rewriting(some)history:SolonandPeisistratus 263 vii CONTENTS Conclusion 281 AppendixIWhowereTyrtaeus’gymnetes? 291 AppendixIIlukavvbanto":whenthewolfcomes? 297 Bibliography 309 Generalindex 331 Indexlocorum 338 viii
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