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A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in...
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A long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the 7th to the late 4th centuries BCE. Employing the evidence of ancient testimonies, Andrea Rotstein also considers the more general question of how literary genres were perceived in ancient Greece. Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. GREEK IAMBOS (7TH-4TH CENT. BCE): GENRE AND CORPUS -- 1. Approaching Genre -- 1. A cognitive view of archaic poetic genres -- 2. Approaches to the genre and corpus of iambos -- 2. The Corpus of Iambic Poets -- 1. Canon vs. Corpus -- 2. The 'received iambos' -- PART TWO. WAYS OF SEEING -- 3. Iambos in Aristotle's Works -- 1. Aristotle's use of terms -- 2. Aristotle's scholarship on iambos -- 3. The Poetics on genres -- 4. Aristotle on the history of poetry (Poetics 4) -- 5. Psogoi and iamboi -- 6. The Margites and iamboi -- 7. The iambike idea -- 8. Aristotle's conceptualization of iambos -- 4. Ancient Theories of Iambos -- 1. Ancient scholarship on iambos -- 2. Etymologies of iambos -- 3. Diomedes -- 4. Proclus (ap. Phot. Chrest. 319b) -- 5. Iambos in Hellenistic genre theories -- 6. Ancient theories of iambos: three paradigms -- PART THREE. IAMBOS AND IAMBEION: A STUDY OF TERMS IN CONTEXT -- 5. Iambos in Archilochus (fr. 215W) -- 6. Iambe and Iambos -- 1. Iambe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter -- 2. Aischrologia -- 3. Iambe in later literary sources -- 4. Iambe and Baubo -- 5. Iambe and iambos -- 7. Iambos and Iambeion in the Classical Period -- 1. Iambos as a rhythmical term -- 2. Iambos as a generic term -- 3. Iambeion -- 4. Aristoxenus of Selinus and the hypothesis of a Dorian iambos -- 5. A history of terms -- PART FOUR. THE PERFORMANCE OF IAMBOS -- 8. Musical Performance of Iamboi -- 1. Archilochus as a musical innovator -- 2. Iambis, pariambis, and iambyke -- 3. Plato's Laws 935e: were iamboi sung? -- 4. Iambos and the Pythian Nomos -- 5. The occasional singing of iamboi -- 9. Public Performance of Iamboi -- 1. Archilochus in mousikoi agones (Heraclit. 42 DK) -- 2. Iamboi in mousikoi agones (Pl. Lg. 935e) -- 3. Watching iamboi in theatres (Arist. Pol. 1336[sup(b)]).
