{"product_id":"the-cup-of-song","title":"The Cup of Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a performance setting. The Cup of Song explores the symbiotic relationship of poetry and the symposion throughout Greek literary history, considering the latter both as a literal performance context and\n\u003cbr\u003eas an imaginary space pregnant with social, political, and aesthetic implications.  This collection of essays by an international group of leading scholars illuminates the various facets\n\u003cbr\u003eof this relationship, from Greek literature's earliest beginnings through to its afterlife in Roman poetry, ranging from the Near Eastern origins of the Greek symposion in the eighth century to Horace's evocations of his archaic models and Lucian's knowing reworking of classic texts. Each chapter discusses one aspect of sympotic engagement by key authors across the major genres of Greek poetry, including archaic and classical lyric, tragedy and comedy, and Hellenistic epigram; discussions of\n\u003cbr\u003eliterary sources are complemented by analysis of the visual evidence of painted pottery. Consideration of these diverse modes and genres from the unifying perspective of their relation to the symposion\n\u003cbr\u003eleads to a characterization of the full spectrum of sympotic poetry that retains an eye to both its shared common features and the specificity of individual genres and texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060347687150,"sku":"9780199687688","price":277.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199687688.jpg?v=1736510268","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/the-cup-of-song","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}