Book contents
- Reviews
- Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
- Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction: Ephemerality and Endurance in Ancient Greek Poetry
- Part I Bodies
- Part II Texts
- 4 Situating Simonides: Stones, Song, and Sound
- 5 Writing the Future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Tablet of the Mind
- 6 Recovering the Bodies of Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Timotheus’ Persae
- Epilogue: The Shape of Time
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Situating Simonides: Stones, Song, and Sound
from Part II - Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2023
Book contents
- Reviews
- Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
- Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction: Ephemerality and Endurance in Ancient Greek Poetry
- Part I Bodies
- Part II Texts
- 4 Situating Simonides: Stones, Song, and Sound
- 5 Writing the Future: Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Tablet of the Mind
- 6 Recovering the Bodies of Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Timotheus’ Persae
- Epilogue: The Shape of Time
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter four investigates archaic inscriptions and the interplay of song and stone in the poetry of Simonides. The tradition of Simonides gives us both epitaphic inscription and choral epinician, two poetic genres whose means and methods might be seen as so widely divergent as to be unrelated. However, I will explore how the substance of song and the fixity of objects are both in play on both sides of the song and stone divide, through a situatedness that allows Simonides to make claims that memories of the past will endure into the future.
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- Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality , pp. 135 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023