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'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona. This is the first book-length literary study of Hipponax for almost half a century. It is written by an international team of scholars, who tackle various topics such as his relationship with social mores, performance practices, earlier and later poetry, and the visual arts. Contributors apply a range of perspectives for a richer understanding of Hipponax's poetics and provide close readings of several key texts. The volume is suitable for scholars and students of literature and all the Greek is translated.
Contents
1. The Limping Muse: Hipponax the Poet Vanessa Casato and Enrico Emanuele Prodi; 2. From Ritual to Indecent Symposion: Contextualising Hipponax Carmine Catenacci; 3. The Black Cat in the Dark: Performance(s) of Hipponactean Iambos Margarita Alexandrou; 4. Hipponax and the Thargelia Shane Hawkins; 5. Homer and Hipponax Adrian Kelly; 6. Hipponax's Iambic Persona and the Protean Art of Begging Andrea Capra; 7. Kandaules 'the Dog-Throttler', Greco-Lydian Onomastics, and the Poetics of Iambos: Hipponax fr. 3a West in Context Alexander Dale; 8. Self-Naming in Hipponax Daniel Anderson; 9. Hipponax vs. Boupalos: Verbal vs. Visual Art? Deborah Boedeker; 10. Dirty Words in Hipponax S. Douglas Olson; 11. Hipponax, Iambic Laughter, and the Question of Genre Ralph M. Rosen; 12. Poetry and Anti-Poetry: Hipponax in Perspective Michael Silk.
