The Many-Headed Muse : Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry (Paperback)

Introduction: definitions, methods, prejudices of reception; 1. A collection of unrecollected authors? The corpus and its problems; 2. New music and its myths: rhetoric, persona, and the theatre stage; 3. Musical lives: reading through the lives of the poets; 4. The language of new music: poetics of compounds and baroque aesthetics; 5. From authority to fantasy: narrative, voice, fictionality; 6. A canon set in stone? Epigraphy, literacy, musical tourism; Conclusion.