In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, twenty-one international scholars discuss the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) from the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE.

Preface Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations Notes on Contributors 1 The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization, and Paratext  Bruno Currie and Ian Rutherford Part 1 Transmission 2 New Philology and the Classics: Accounting for Variation in the Textual Transmission of Greek Lyric Poetry  André Lardinois 3 Tyrtaeus the Lawgiver: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus on Tyrtaeus fr. 4  Eveline van Hilten-Rutten Part 2 Canons 4 On the Shaping of the Lyric Canon in Athens  Gregory Nagy 5 Melic Poets and Melic Forms in the Comedies of Aristophanes: Poetic Genres and the Creation of a Canon  Claude Calame 6 Structuring the Genre: The Fifth- and Fourth-Century Authors on Elegy and Elegiac Poets  Krystyna Bartol Part 3 Lyric in the Peripatetics 7 The Peripatetics and the Transmission of Lyric  Theodora A. Hadjimichael 8 The Self-Revealing Poet: Lyric Poetry and Cultural History in the Peripatetic School  Elsa Bouchard Part 4 Early Reception 9 Lyric Reception and Sophistic Literarity in Timotheus’ Persae  David Fearn 10 “Total Reception”: Stesichorus as Revenant in Plato’s Phaedrus (with a New Stesichorean Fragment?)  Andrea Capra 11 Indirect Tradition on Sappho’s kertomia  Maria Kazanskaya Part 5 Reception in Roman poetry 12 Alcaeus’ stasiotica: Catullan and Horatian Readings  Ewen Bowie 13 Pindar, Paratexts, and Poetry: Architectural Metaphors in Pindar and Roman Poets (Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Statius)  Gregor Bitto Part 6 Second Sophistic Contexts 14 Sympotic Sappho? The Recontextualization of Sappho’s Verses in Athenaeus  Stefano Caciagli 15 A Sophisticated hetaira at Table: Athenaeus’ Sappho  Renate Schlesier 16 Solon and the Democratic Biographical Tradition  Jessica Romney 17 Strategies of Quoting Solon’s Poetry in Plutarch’s Life of Solon  Jacqueline Klooster 18 Playing with Terpander & Co.: Lyric, Music, and Politics in Aelius Aristides’ To the Rhodians: Concerning Concord  Francesca Modini Part 7 Scholarship 19 Historiography and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship  Tom Phillips 20 Poem-Titles in Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides  Enrico Emanuele Prodi 21 Ita dictum accipe: Pomponius Porphyrio on Early Greek Lyric Poetry in Horace  Johannes Breuer 22 Pindar and His Commentator Eustathius of Thessalonica  Arlette Neumann-Hartmann Index of Passages General Index