The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual

405 Pages·2016·2.874 MB·English

by  Vanessa Cazzato, André Lardinois

TheLookofLyric:GreekSongandtheVisual
Mnemosyne
Supplements
monographs on greek and
latin language and literature
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G.J.Boter(vuUniversityAmsterdam)
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A.Chaniotis(Oxford)
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volume391
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The Look of Lyric:
Greek Song and the Visual
StudiesinArchaicandClassicalGreekSong,vol.1
Editedby
VanessaCazzato
AndréLardinois
WithanIntroductionby
Anastasia-ErasmiaPeponi
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Contents
Preface vii
ListofFigures viii
ListofContributors x
1 LyricVision:AnIntroduction 1
Anastasia-ErasmiaPeponi
2 PoliticalandDramaticPerspectivesonArchaicSculptures:
Bacchylides’FourthDithyramb(Ode18)andtheTreasuryofthe
AtheniansinDelphi 16
LuciaAthanassaki
3 TheFightofTelephus:PoeticVisionsbehindthePergamon
Frieze 50
LauraLulli
4 ChoralPerformanceandGeometricPatternsinEpicPoetryand
IconographicRepresentations 69
JesúsCarruesco
5 MakingMonkeys:Archilochusfrr.185–187w.inPerformance 108
DeborahSteiner
6 ObservingGenreinArchaicGreekSkoliaandVase-Painting 146
GregoryS.Jones
7 ‘GlancingSeductivelythroughWindows’:TheLookofPraxillafr.8
(pmg754) 185
VanessaCazzato
8 HowtoConstructaSympoticSpacewithWords 204
JennyStraussClay
9 TurningSoundintoSightintheChorus’EntranceSongofAeschylus’
SevenagainstThebes 217
CarolineTrieschnigg
vi contents
10 LightandVisioninPindar’sOlympianOdes:InterplaysofImagination
andPerformance 238
MichelBriand
11 VisualImageryinParthenaicSong 255
LauraSwift
12 TheAmorousGaze:APoeticandPragmaticKoinêforErotic
Melos? 288
ClaudeCalame
13 VisualizingtheCologneSappho:MentalImagerythroughChorality,
theSun,andOrpheus 307
AntonBierl
14 FemaleChorusesandGardensofNymphs:VisualizingChoralityin
Sappho 343
KaterinaLadianou
15 ImaginingImages:Anacreontea16and17 370
IppokratisKantzios
Index 387
Preface
ThisvolumeinauguratesaserieswithinBrill’sMnemosyneSupplementswhich
records the proceedings of the conferences of the Network for the Study of
ArchaicandClassicalGreekSong(http://greeksong.ruhosting.nl/).Threefur-
thervolumesintheseriesareinpreparation:onauthorshipandauthorityin
Greek lyric poetry, on the reception and transmission of Greek lyric poetry
from600bcto400ad,andonthenewestSapphofragmentspublishedin2014
(P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105). The Network was founded in 2007 as
a means of facilitating interaction between scholars interested in the study
of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. Most of the papers
included here were originally presented at the first open conference of the
Network,heldon17th–20thJuly2009attheEuropeanCulturalCentreofDel-
phi.ThiswasfundedbytheNetherlandsOrganizationforScientificResearch
(nwo) and Stanford University, and organised by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
and Richard Martin. Theirs was the choice of theme, the formulation of the
callforpapers,andtheinitialselectionofabstracts.Thepublicationofthevol-
umewasthenplannedbythemjointlywithAndréLardinoisandthepapers
underwentaprocessofpeerreviewingatthehandsofthe‘coremembers’of
thenetworkaswellasananonymousreviewerforthePress.Thefinalprocess
of shaping the volume and editing the typescript for submission was under-
takenbyVanessaCazzatoandAndréLardinois,oneofthenetwork’sfounders
andtheinitiatoroftheseries.Twostudents,HendriDekkerandMariekeGrau-
mans, helped with the preparation of the index. We would like to thank the
FacultyofArtsofRadboudUniversityforprovidingthefundswhichenabled
thisvolumetobemadeavailablethroughOpenAccess.
V.C.
A.L.
List of Figures
2.1 ReconstructionoftheAthenianTreasurybyA.Tournaire(1902) 21
2.2 TheseusandProcrustesorSciron.MetopefromtheAthenianTreasuryat
Delphi,SouthSide,ArchaeologicalMuseumofDelphi 25
2.3 TheseusandCercyon.MetopefromtheAthenianTreasuryatDelphi,South
Side,ArchaeologicalMuseumofDelphi 26
2.4 AthenaandTheseus.MetopefromtheAthenianTreasuryatDelphi.SouthSide,
ArchaeologicalMuseumofDelphi 27
2.5 DisplayoftheMetopesintheDelphiArchaeologicalMuseum 28
2.6 DisplayoftheMetopesintheDelphiArchaeologicalMuseum,detail 29
3.1 Hiera,Telephus’wife,againsttheGreekwarriors,fromthePergamonGreat
Altar 61
3.2 Hiera’sfuneral,fromthePergamonGreatAltar 62
3.3 Thedeathoftwowarriors,fromthePergamonGreatAltar 63
3.4 ThedeathofAktaios,fromthePergamonGreatAltar 64
3.5 ThewoundingofTelephusbyAchilles,fromthePergamonGreatAltar 65
4.1a Atticoinochoe,c.740bc,fromDipylon 85
4.1b InscriptiononAtticoinochoe,c.740bc,fromDipylon 86
4.2 Corinthianaryballos,withrepresentationofdanceandinscription.
c.590–580bc 87
4.3 Argivecrater(LateGeometric),fromgravet45inArgos 88
4.4 Atticcrater(lg1b),c.740bc,fromKerameikos 91
4.5 Atticchest(mg i)withmodelgranaries 92
4.6 Atticpyxis(mg ii),c.760–50bc 93
4.7 LateGeometricoinochoe,c.750bc 94
4.8 EuboeanlgcraterfromCyprusbytheCesnolaPainter 95
4.9 Atticcrater(LGIb),c.740b,fromDipylon 97
4.10 Oinochoe,c.735–720bc.Boston25.42,RichardNortonMemorialFund 98
4.11 Kantharos.Boiotian.Late8thcenturyb.c. 99
4.12 Dancingwarriors.lgcup 101
4.13 Boeotianlgpythoidjar,fromThebes 102
4.14 Couplesdancing.NeckofAttic(epa)loutrophoros,bytheAnalatos
Painter 103
4.15 HeraclesandTriton.AtticBlackfigurekylix 104
4.16 AtticRedfigurekylix 105
5.1 Terracottakantharoswithmonkeyface 129
5.2a Cupdatedtocirca520 130
5.2b Cupdatedtocirca520 131
list of figures ix
5.3 Terracottafigurevaseofamonkey,ca565–550 132
5.4a Corinthianoilflask 133
5.4b Corinthianoilflask 134
5.4c Corinthianoilflask 134
5.5 Red-figurehydria 135
5.6a HydriadepictingtheCalydonianboarhunt 139
5.6b HydriadepictingtheCalydonianboarhunt 140
6.1a Red-figurekraterbyEuphronios 171
6.1b Detailofred-figurekraterbyEuphronios 172
6.2a Red-figurekylixbytheEpeleiosPainter 176
6.2b Tondoofred-figurekylixbytheEpeleiosPainter(tondo) 178
7.1a Sideaofunattributedred-figurekylix 189
7.1b Sidebofunattributedred-figurekylix 190
7.1c Tondoofunattributedred-figurekylix 191