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Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Bibliography

Bibliography Adrados, F. R. Origenes de la Urica griega. Madrid, 1976. Barker, A. Greek Musical Writings (vol.l). Cambridge, 1984. Beazley, J. D. “Citharoedus.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 42 (1922): 70-98. Benardete, S. The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus. Chicago, 1991. Bowra, C. M. Greek Lyric Poetry (2nd ed.). Oxford, 1961. ———. “The Two Palinodes of Stesichorus.” Classical Review 13 (1963): 245 ff. Brickhouse, T. C., and… Read more

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Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Chapter 4. Stesichorus’ Palinode in the Phaedrus

  Chapter 4. Stesichorus’ Palinode in the Phaedrus Socrates’ reference to Stesichorus’ famous palinode in the Phaedrus has not been studied with respect to its context. Although scholars have focused upon the palinode with respect to the question of whether or not Stesichorus composed more than one “recantation,” few have analyzed its role within the dialogue. [1] It is curious that Plato has Socrates present… Read more

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Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I wish to express my gratitude to Gregory Nagy, the editor of this series, for his encouragement and for sharing with me his many insights on the role of lyric poetry during Plato’s time. I would also like to acknowledge my debt to Charles Segal and Ian Rutherford, each of whom offered me valuable comments and suggestions on a wide variety of topics. Albert Henrichs also greatly influenced my… Read more

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Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Chapter 3. Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias

Chapter 3. Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias Perhaps the most discussed quotation from lyric poetry found in Plato is the reference by Callicles in the Gorgias to a Pindaric poem concerned with the labors of Herakles (fr. 169a Snell-Maehler). Although Callicles quotes only five lines from the poem, it is clear that these lines, like the reference to Simonides in the Protagoras, are familiar to Plato’s audience. As… Read more

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Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato: Foreword

Foreword Gregory Nagy, General Editor Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium B.C.E. to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern of a single… Read more

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A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides

[[Originally printed 2011 in Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (ed. L. Athanassaki and E. L. Bowie) 173-206. Berlin. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {173|174} marks where p. 173 stops and p. 174 begins.]] [1] Introduction Ode 13 of Bacchylides celebrated the victory of Pytheas of Aegina in the athletic… Read more

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Asopos and his multiple daughters: Traces of preclassical epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar

This is an electronic version of Chapter 1 of Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry. Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC (ed. David Fearn; Oxford 2011) 41–78. The original pagination of the chapter will be indicated in this electronic version by way of braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{41|42}” indicates where p. 41 of the printed chapter ends and p. 42 begins. Introduction The Aeginetan odes… Read more

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Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius

[[This article was originally published in 2012 in Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (edited by M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, and G. C. Wakker) 131-162, Peeters Publishers: Leuven. The page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within braces in this electronic version: for example, {131|132} marks where p. 131 ends and p. 132 begins.]] The divinity of heroes, and the cult honors they received in the Greek world,… Read more