19 Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of the Original Publication Venues XI
5. List of Papers not Included in the Present Collection XIII
6. Part I: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
7. 1 Alcibiades the Laughter-maker 3
8. 2 The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry 18
9. 3 ‘Where do I begin?’: An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife 46
10. Part II: Ancient Drama
11. 4 The Garland of Hippolytus 67
12. 5 Apollo and the Ion of Euripides: Nothing to do with Nietzsche? 84
13. 6 Comedy and Reperformance 103
14. Part III: Hellenistic Poetry
15. 7 Language and Interpretation in Greek Epigram 131
16. 8 The Gods of Callimachus 156
17. 9 Festivals, Cults and the Construction of Consensus in Hellenistic Poetry 175
18. 10 Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry 193
19. 11 Sweet Stesichorus: Theocritus 18 and the Helen Revisited 214
20. 12 A Philosophical Death? 235
21. 13 Hellenistic Poetry and the Archaeology of Leisure 245
22. 14 Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary? 267
23. 15 Reading and Citing the Epigrams of Callimachus 286
24. 16 Enkelados: Callimachus fr. 1.36 307
25. 17 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry 314
26. 18 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer 328
27. Part IV: Latin Literature
28. 19 Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho 349
29. 20 One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy 364
30. 21 Horace’s other Ars Poetica: Epistles 1.2 and Ancient Homeric Criticism 376
31. 22 Some Dramatic Terminology 399
32. 23 Regius urget: Hellenising Thoughts on Latin Intratextuality 411
33. 24 The Geographies of Plautus’ Menaechmi 431
34. Part V: The Ancient Novel
35. 25 Fictional Anxieties 449
36. 26 Rythmical Language and Poetic Citation in Greek Narrative Texts 462
37. Part VI: Ancient Criticism and Scholarship
38. 27 The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism 487
39. 28 Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship 506
40. 29 Attic Comedy in the Rhetorical and Moralising Traditions 521
41. 30 ‘Clever about Verses’?: Plato and the ‘Scopas Ode’ (PMG 542 = 260 Poltera) 537
42. 31 Serpents in the Soul: The ‘Libyan Myth’ of Dio Chrysostom 560
43. 32 ‘Palaephatus’, Strabo and the Boundaries of Myth 578
44. 33 The Rhetorical Criticism of Homer 598
45. 34 The Hippias Minor and the Traditions of Homeric Criticism 633
46. 35 Autobiography as Literary History: Dio Chrysostom, On exile 659
47. 36 Eustathian Moments: Reading Eustathius’ Commentaries 682
48. 37 Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Idea of the Critic 750
49. 38 Dio Chrysostom and the Citation of Tragedy 770
50. 39 Some Problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’ 787
51. Part VII: Miscellaneous
52. 40 The Letter of Aristeas 811
53. 41 Pulling Apollo Apart 824
54. 42 The Poetics of Greek Inscriptions 850
55. 43 John Malalas and the Story of the Cyclops 875
56. 44 Homer in Origen, Against Celsus 883
57. General Index 909
58. Index of Passages Discussed 915