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This page intentionally left blank WANDERING POETS IN ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE Althoughrecentscholarshiphasfocusedonthecity-stateasthecon- text for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the Near Eastern societieswhichprecededtheGreeks,throughthewayinwhichearly semi-mythicalfiguressuchasOrpheuswereimagined,thepoetswho travelledtothebrilliantcourtsofarchaictyrants,andonintothefluid mobility of imperial and late antique culture. The emphasis is both onwhypoetstravelled,andonhowlocalcommunitiesusedtheskills oftheseoutsidersfortheirownpurposes.Wanderingpoetsarealsoset withinthewidercontextofancientnetworksofexchange,patronage andaffiliationbetweencommunitiesandareseenasoneparticularly powerfulmanifestationofafeatureofancientlifewhichistoooften overlooked. richard hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensivelyinthefieldsofGreekandLatinLiterature:hismostrecent books include Plato’s Symposium (2004), Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with M. Fantuzzi, Cambridge, 2004) and The ShadowofCallimachus(Cambridge,2006). ian rutherford isProfessorofGreekattheUniversityofRead- ing.HisprincipalresearchinterestsareGreeklyric,religiouspractice andstate-pilgrimage,andtherelationsbetweenGreekandeasterncul- tures.HisPindar’sPaeanswaspublishedin2001,andheisaneditor ofPilgrimageinGreco-RomanandEarlyChristianAntiquity:Seeingthe Gods(2005). WANDERING POETS IN ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism edited by RICHARD HUNTER AND IAN RUTHERFORD CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521898782 Cambridge University Press 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 I e ISBN-13 978-0-521-89878-2 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Listoffigures pagevii Notesoncontributors viii Acknowledgements xi Listofabbreviations xii 1 Introduction 1 RichardHunterandIanRutherford 2 HittiteandGreekperspectivesontravellingpoets,textsand festivals 23 MaryR.Bachvarova 3 ThamyristheThracian:thearchetypalwanderingpoet? 46 PeterWilson 4 Readonarrival 80 RichardP.Martin 5 Wanderingpoets,archaicstyle 105 EwenBowie 6 DefininglocalidentitiesinGreeklyricpoetry 137 GiovanBattistaD’Alessio 7 Wanderingpoetry,‘travelling’music:Timotheus’museand somecase-studiesofshiftingculturalidentities 168 LuciaPrauscello 8 Epigrammaticcontests,poetivagantiandlocalhistory 195 AndrejPetrovic 9 Worldtravellers:theassociationsofArtistsofDionysus 217 SophiaAneziri v vi Contents 10 AristodamaandtheAetolians:anitinerantpoetessand heragenda 237 IanRutherford 11 TravellingmemoriesintheHellenisticworld 249 AngelosChaniotis Bibliography 270 Index 307 Figures 1 MapofGreece page49 2a Atticred-figurekrater,c.420fromFerrara(Spina), MuseoArcheologicoinv.3033,T127.Usedby permissionoftheMuseoArcheologico. 71 2b Drawingofimageinfigure2a:Aurigemma1960: Tavola6.Photo:FionaKidd 72 2c Detailfromfigure2a.Photo:FionaKidd 72 vii Notes on contributors sophia aneziri is a lecturer in Ancient History and Epigraphy at the NationalandCapodistrianUniversityofAthens.Shehaspublishedwidely onGreekepigraphy,religionandsociety,andistheauthorofDieVereineder dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft (Historia Einzelschriften163,Stuttgart2003)and(incollaborationwithothers)Index duBulletinEpigraphique1987–2001,3vols.(Meletemata43,Athens2005). mary r. bachvarova is Assistant Professor in Classical Studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; she has also taught at the Uni- versityofManchesterandtheUniversityofNottingham.Thefocusofher researchisusingNearEasternmaterial,especiallyfromsecondmillennium Anatolia,bettertounderstandthedevelopmentofancientGreekculture. ewen bowie taught Greek language and literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics from 1965–2007. He has published extensively on the Greek literature and culture of the Romanempire,onarchaicandHellenisticpoetryandonOldComedy.He iscurrentlycompletingacommentaryonLongus,DaphnisandChloe. angelos chaniotis is Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at All Souls College, Oxford. He is senior editor of the Supplementum Epi- graphicum Graecum. His books include Historie und Historiker in den griechischen Inschriften (Stuttgart 1988) and War in the Hellenistic World: ASocialandCulturalHistory(Oxford2005). giovan battista d’alessio isProfessorofGreekLiteratureandLan- guageatKing’sCollegeLondon;beforehiscurrentappointmenthetaught at the University of Messina. He is the author of an annotated edition of Callimachus(Milan1996,2ndedition2007)andhaspublishedextensively onGreeklyricandHellenisticpoetry,andonGreekliterarypapyri. viii
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