Traces of Folk Music in Ancient Greek Drama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introductory Notes 1
5. A Scholarch Denied: Leucippus, Founder of Ancient Atomism 11
6. Sopater of Paphus and the Phlyax Plays 25
7. Reading the New Erechtheid Casualty List from Marathon 41
8. To Produce Poetry in Order to Submerge it: Socrates’ Aesopic Experience (Plat. Phaedo 60 b1‒61 b7) 67
9. The Muse Looks Down: Theocritus and the Hellenistic Aesthetic of the ‘Submerged’ 81
10. An Exceptional Survivor and Its Submerged Background: The Periplus Maris Erythraei and the Indian Ocean Travelogue Tradition 97
11. Traditions on Armenia in Submerged Greek Literature: Preliminary Considerations 111
12. Sacred Texts and Consecrated Texts 125
13. Covered by Silence: Hidden Texts and Secret Rites in the Ancient Mystery Cults 161
14. Orphics at Olbia? 177
15. The Gynaecological and Nosological Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: the Tip of an Iceberg 187
16. Dance in Attic and Argive Geometric Pottery: Figurative Imagery and Ritual Contexts 205
17. Potters and Painters in Archaic Corinth: Schemata and Images 243
18. Ariadne and Her Companions 259
19. A Tale of Mummies, Drinking Parties, and Cultic Practices: Submerged Texts and the Papyrological Evidence 269
20. The Circulation and Transmission of Greek Adespota in Roman Egypt 289
21. La cathédrale engloutie. Greek Music from the Perspective of the Submerged 311
22. The Submerged Musicology of Ancient Greece 325
23. Traces of Folk Music in Ancient Greek Drama 339
24. Index Nominum 353
25. Index Rerum Notabilium 366
26. Index Locorum 377
27. Editors and Contributors 389