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The Emergence of the Lyric Canon (Hardcover)
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The Emergence of the Lyric Canon (Hardcover)
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The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged
texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of
the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was based
on poetic quality, popularity, or the availability of texts in the
Library of Alexandria, the Lyric Canon offers a valuable and
revealing window on the reception and survival of lyric in
antiquity. This volume explores the complexities inherent in the
process by which lyric poetry was canonized, and discusses
questions connected with the textual transmission and preservation
of lyric poems from the archaic period through to the Hellenistic
era. It firstly contextualizes lyric poetry geographically, and
then focuses on a broad range of sources that played a critical
role in the survival of lyric poetry - in particular, comedy,
Plato, Aristotle's Peripatetic school, and the Hellenistic scholars
- to discuss the reception of the nine canonical lyric poets and
their work. By exploring the ways in which fifth- and
fourth-century sources interpreted lyric material, and the role
they played both in the scholarly work of the Alexandrians and in
the creation of what we conventionally call the Hellenistic Lyric
Canon, it elucidates what can be defined as the prevailing pattern
in the transmission of lyric poetry, as well as the place of
Bacchylides as a puzzling exception to this norm. The overall
discussion conclusively demonstrates that the canonizing process of
the lyric poets was already at work from the fifth century BC and
that it is reflected both in the evaluation of lyric by
fourth-century thinkers and in the activities of the Hellenistic
scholars in the Library of Alexandria.
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