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Exile and the Poetics of Loss ın Greek Tradition Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Series Editor: Gregory Nagy, Harvard University Assistant Editor: Timothy Power, Harvard University On the front cover: A calendar frieze representing the Athenian months, reused in the Byzantine Church of the Little Metropolis in Athens. The cross is superimposed, obliterating Taurus of the Zodiac. The choice of this frieze for books in Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches reflects this series’ emphasis on the blending of the diverse heritages—Near Eastern, Classical, and Christian—in the Greek tradition. Drawing by Laurie Kain Hart, based on a photograph. Recent titles in the series are: Aglaia: The Poetry of Aleman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna by Charles Segal Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics, by Helen Pournara Karydas Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry by Derek Collins Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia by M. D. Usher Recapturing Sophocles’ Antigone by William Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus by Hanna M. Roisman Lyric Quotation in Plato by Marian Demos Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition by Nancy Sultan The Classical Moment: Views from Seven Literatures Edited by Gail Holst-Warhaft and David R. McCann Nine Essays on Homer Edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk Dionysism and Comedy by Xavier Riu Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles‘ Oedipus at Colonus by Roger Travis Exile and the Poetics of Loss ın Greek Tradition NANCY SULTAN ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham * Boulder » New York « Oxford ROWMAN ἃ LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www. rowmanlittlefield.com 12 Hid’s Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 911, England Copyright © 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sultan, Nancy, 1959- Exile and the poetics of loss in Greek tradition / Nancy Sultan. p. em. -- (Greek studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8476-8715-1 (alk. paper). -- ISBN 0-8476-8752-X (pbk. : alk paper) |. Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism. 2. Folk songs, Greek--History and criticism. 3. Byzantine poetry--History and criticism. 4, Loss (Psychology) in literature. 5. Oral tradition-- Greece. 6. Heroes in literature. 7. Exiles in literature. I. Title. Il. Series. PA3106.575 1999 881°009°35206--de21 98-54969 CIP Printed in the United States of America 69 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Wait It's been a long time Now I’m coming back home I've been away now Oh how I've been alone Wait till I come back to your side We'll forget the tears we've cried But if your heart breaks Don’t wait, turn me away And if your heart's strong Hold on, I won't delay Wait till I come back to your side We'll forget the tears we've cried I feel as though You ought to know That I’ve been good As good as I can be And if you do I'll trust in you And know that you Will wait for me It's been a long time Now I’m coming back home I've been away now Oh how I've been alone Wait till I come back to your side We'll forget the tears we've cried Lennon McCartney 1965 Contents Foreword Note on Text and Transliteration Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Part 1: The Hero’s Voice in Exile 1. The Discourse of Xenitia 2. Dikos or Xenos? 3. Hero and Pallikari R 4. Gendered Discourse: Ponos ‘Suffering’ G 5. Ponos to Poneria E 6. Summary of Part I S Part ii: The Hero’s Voice of Return 1, Female Sexuality: Controlling Timely Death 2. Women’s Ponos and Their Discourse of Honor 3. Ponos and Weaving 4. Home as Place of Telos 5. Witnessing 6. Testing Fidelity 7. Transfer of Kleos 8. A Question of Free Will: Ananké 9, Summary of Part II Notes Vill Contents Bibliography . 119 Select Discography 130 Index 131 About the Author 137 Foreword Gregory Nagy Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium BCE to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern of a single given discipline. Besides the crossing-over of the older disciplines, as in the case of historical and literary studies, the series encourages the application of such newer ones as linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and comparative literature. It also encourages encounters with current trends in methodology, especially in the realm of literary theory. Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, by Nancy Sultan, examines the traditions of women’s songmaking over the whole range of Hellenic history, starting with the earliest recorded testimony from ancient Greece and extending all the way to the present. The author's acumen as both classicist and ethnomusicologist stands her in good stead in giving her an overarching perspective on the vast chronologically stratified body of evidence at her disposal. Her control of both ancient and modern evidence has yielded a wealth of insights into the social context of women’s songmaking, especially of laments and love songs. This book deals definitively with the ways in which the women’s song-making traditions in Greek society actually affect and even to a degree regulate men’s song-making traditions, including Classical tragedy and the epic of Homer.
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