The Cup of Song: Studies on Poetry and the Symposion

348 Pages·2016·1.89 MB·English

by  Vanessa Cazzato

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THE CUP OF SONG
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The Cup of Song
Studies on Poetry and the Symposion
Editedby
VANESSA CAZZATO,
DIRK OBBINK, AND
ENRICO EMANUELE PRODI
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Acknowledgements
Mostofthepapersincludedinthisvolumewerefirstpresentedataconference
heldinOxfordin2011.Thiswas,ofcourse,notthefirstOxfordconferenceon
the symposion, and it was our pleasure to have Oswyn Murray, organizer of
the original Sympotica conference, as our symposiarch, as well as another
oftheoriginalparticipantsinthepersonofEwenBowie.
We thank all those who made the event possible and enjoyable, including
the large and engaged audience, the session chairs (Bruno Currie, Penelope
Murray,andMartinWest),andthespeakerswhosecontributiondidnot,for
variousreasons,makeitintothevolume:HansBernsdorff,FelixBudelmann,
EttoreCingano, SimonHornblower,Richard Hunter, Dirk Obbink,and Tim
Power. Thanks are also due to Caterina Franchi for her good-humoured
assistanceinallmatterslogistical.Wearegratefultothefollowinginstitutions
forprovidingfinancialsupporttowardstheorganizationoftheconference:the
Craven Committee and Faculty Board of the Faculty of Classics, Oxford; the
John Fell OUP Fund; Merton College, Oxford; and the Classical Association
andtheSocietyforthePromotionofHellenicStudies,whichfundedanumber
ofbursariestofacilitateattendancebygraduatestudents.WethanktheJowett
Copyright Trust for providing generous funding towards the cost of colour
plates. Finally, we thank the editors and assistant editors at the Press who
steered the volume to completion: Hilary O’Shea, Charlotte Loveridge, Clare
Kennedy,andGeorginaLeighton.
V.C.
D.O.
E.E.P.
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Contents
ListofPlates ix
AbbreviationsandConventions xi
NotesonContributors xvii
Introduction:ContinuityintheSympoticTradition 1
VanessaCazzatoandEnricoEmanueleProdi
1. TheSymposionbetweenEastandWest 17
OswynMurray
2. Quousquetandem...?HowLongWereSympoticSongs? 28
EwenBowie
3. SomeThoughtsontheSymposiasticCatena,Aisakos,andSkolia 42
GauthierLiberman
4. Bacchylides’BanquetSongs 63
GiovanBattistaD’Alessio
5. TheSymposionasThemeandPerformanceContext
inPindar’sEpinicians 85
LuciaAthanassaki
6. Smikros:FictionalPortraitofanArtistasaSymposiast
byEuphronios 113
GuyHedreen
7. SymposiaandtheFormationofPoeticGenrein
Aristophanes’Wasps 140
RalphM.Rosen
8. PartingShots:Aeschylus,Agamemnon1384–98andSymposia
intheVisualRepertoire 159
DeborahT.Steiner
9. SymposiaenpleinairinAlcaeusandOthers 184
VanessaCazzato
10. TheWorldinaCup:EkpomaticsinandoutoftheSymposion 207
RenaudGagné
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11. PartyorPerish:Death,Wine,andClosureinHellenistic
SympoticEpigram 230
AlexanderSens
12. HierarchyandSymposiasticPoetry,GreekandLatin 247
GregoryO.Hutchinson
Bibliography 271
Indexes 301
SubjectsandGreekwords 301
Passagescited 306
Inscriptions 327
Papyri 328
Vases 329
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List of Plates
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ofAmsterdam.
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Photo:RenateKühling,StaatlicheAntikensammlungen.
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Museum82.AE.53.Photo:TheJ.PaulGettyMuseum,VillaCollection,
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d’HistoireA717.Photo:MuséesRoyauxd’Artetd’Histoire,Brussels.
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Antikensammlung1966.19.Photo:bpk,Berlin/Staatliche
Museen/JohannesLaurentius/ArtResource,NY.
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duLouvreCP11071.Photo:LesfrèresChuzeville.©RéuniondesMusées
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DrawingafterA.FurtwänglerandK.Reichhold,Griechische
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Palais/ArtResource,NY.
11. Atticred-figurebell-kraterbythePainteroftheLouvre,ca.400.
Paris,LouvreG521.Photo:HervéLewandowski.©RMN-Grand
Palais/ArtResource,NY.
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LouvreG50.Photo:HervéLewandowski.©RMN-GrandPalais/Art
Resource,NY.