Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture

Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

Autorentext
Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin Literature: his most recent books include Plato's Symposium (2004, with M. Fantuzzi); Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2004); and The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006). Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. His principal research interests are Greek lyric, religious practice and state-pilgrimage, and the relations between Greek and eastern cultures. His Pindar's Paeans was published in 2001, and he is an editor of Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (2005).

Zusammenfassung
Poets in ancient Greece travelled in search of commissions and to celebrate local communities, rather than staying put in and only writing for their own cities. This volume explores this central feature of ancient culture, setting wandering poets within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.

Inhalt
List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Richard Hunter and Ian Rutherford; 2. Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts and festivals Mary Bachvarova; 3. Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet? Peter Wilson; 4. Read on arrival Richard P. Martin; 5. Wandering poets, archaic style Ewen Bowie; 6. Defining local communities in Greek lyric poetry Giovan Battista D'Alessio; 7. Wandering poetry, 'travelling' music: Timotheus' Muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities Lucia Prauscello; 8. Epigrammatic contest, poeti vaganti and local history Andrej Petrovic; 9. World travellers: the associations of Artists of Dionysus Sophia Aneziri; 10. Aristodama and the Aetolians: an itinerant poetess and her agenda Ian Rutherford; 11. Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world Angelos Chaniotis; Bibliography; Index.

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