Deborah Steiner
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View article: Things That Sing: The Liveliness of Vessels in Early Greek Art and Poetry
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At the outset of Olympian 7, Pindar figures the ode currently being performed to the phorminx and pipes as an all-gold phiale ‘plashing within with the dew of the vine’ (1–12); elsewhere, the poetic voice addresses his chorodidaskalos as a…
View article: Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric
Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric Open
My discussion explores the coincidence between catalogues and choruses in the early poetic repertoire, observing how choral ensembles regularly perform lists in both hexameter and lyric sources. Drawing on representations of choruses in ar…
View article: Making Monkeys: Archilochus frr. 185–187 W. in Performance
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This chapter offers a close reading of Archilochus frr. 185–187 W. that situates the fragments within the performative, political, and visual context of the archaic symposium where they would have been delivered. After considering the rela…