Herodotus famously credits Homer and Hesiod with shaping the Greeks' image of their gods. Yet the contribution of the Archaic and Early Classical lyric poets was equally, if not more, important. This book explores images of intimate interactions of mortals and immortals in sacred and profane locales, and assesses how performance sub specie divinitatis fired poets imagination, taking into account both new scholarly approaches to lyric and Greek religion and the discovery of important new fragments.
Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology Emerita at the University of Crete. She has published extensively on Greek Lyric and Tragedy, with emphasis on the interface between performance and material culture, and more recently on Plutarch.
André Lardinois is Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main fields of interest are archaic Greek poetry and classical drama.
Contributors are: Mary R. Bachvarova, Anton Bierl, Angus Bowie, Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Stefano Fanucchi, Thomas Hubbard, Athena Kavoulaki, Lawrence Kowerski, Amy Mars, Richard Martin, Gregory Nagy, Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi, Cecilia Nobili, Cameron G. Pearson, Gabriella Pironti, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Saskia Willigers.
