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Lyric in the second degree : archaic and early classical poetry in Himerius of Athens
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Modini, Francesca (2022) Lyric in the second degree : archaic and early classical poetry in Himerius of Athens. The Classical Quarterly, 72 (2). pp. 834-849. doi:10.1017/S000983882200074X ISSN 0009-8388.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983882200074X
Abstract
This article reconsiders afresh the methodological issues posed by the reception of archaic and classical poetry in imperial rhetorical texts. It argues that references to ancient poems and poets in the works of imperial sophists are always already the product of appropriation and rewriting, and that the study of sophists’ engagement with poetry should go beyond Quellenforschung to explore how and why poetic models were transformed in light of their new rhetorical and imperial contexts. To illustrate this approach and its contribution to our understanding of both ancient reception phenomena and imperial rhetorical culture, the article focuses on Himerius of Athens, a fourth-century C.E. sophist and teacher of rhetoric whose fondness for lyric poetry has caused his Orations to be used as a quarry for lyric fragments and testimonia. Himerius’ treatment of carefully chosen lyric models is here discussed with attention to his self- presentation and rhetorical agenda, to show how the sophist appropriated the voices of diverse lyric icons to promote his school and negotiate his position in relation to the imperial administration. This analysis restores Himerius’ intellectual significance within late-imperial culture and society, but it also demonstrates how a more in-depth study of the reception of ancient poetry in imperial sophistic literature has the potential to illuminate the strategies of cultural politics used by imperial authors to (re)construct Greek tradition.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Greek poetry -- History and criticism, Greek literature -- History and criticism, Himerius, approximately 310-approximately 390 -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Classical Quarterly | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0009-8388 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 72 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 834-849 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S000983882200074X | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 January 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 January 2023 | ||||||||
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