Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts and festivals
- 3 Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet?
- 4 Read on arrival
- 5 Wandering poets, archaic style
- 6 Defining local identities in Greek lyric poetry
- 7 Wandering poetry, ‘travelling’ music: Timotheus' muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities
- 8 Epigrammatic contests, poeti vaganti and local history
- 9 World travellers: the associations of Artists of Dionysus
- 10 Aristodama and the Aetolians: an itinerant poetess and her agenda
- 11 Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hittite and Greek perspectives on travelling poets, texts and festivals
- 3 Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet?
- 4 Read on arrival
- 5 Wandering poets, archaic style
- 6 Defining local identities in Greek lyric poetry
- 7 Wandering poetry, ‘travelling’ music: Timotheus' muse and some case-studies of shifting cultural identities
- 8 Epigrammatic contests, poeti vaganti and local history
- 9 World travellers: the associations of Artists of Dionysus
- 10 Aristodama and the Aetolians: an itinerant poetess and her agenda
- 11 Travelling memories in the Hellenistic world
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek CultureTravel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism, pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009