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Derek Collins, Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Greek Poetic Contestation
Part I. Dramatic Representations of Verse Competition
1. Stichomythia 2. The ἀντιλαβή and Aristophanes’ Frogs 1198–1248 3. Stichomythia and σκώμματα: Euripides’ Cyclops, Aristophanes’ Wealth, and Plato’s Euthydemus 4. Excursus: Theocritus and the Problem of Judgment 5. Conclusion Part II. Sporting at Symposia: Verse and Skolia Competitions
6. Play and the Seriousness of Sympotic Poetry Games 7. The Skolion Game 8. Aristophanes’ Wasps 1222–49 9. The Attic Skolia, Theognis, and Riddles 10. Symposiasts versus Rhapsodes 11. Xenophanes 12. Heraclitus 13. Solon 14. Anacreon 15. Conclusion Part III. Epic Competition in Performance: Homer and Rhapsodes
16. The Amoebaean Muses 17. From Written to Oral 18. Modes of Innovation 19. The Panathenaia and Beyond 20. Ptolemaic Homers 21. Conclusions and Prospects Appendix I. Ritual ΑΙΣΧΡΟΛΟΓΙΑ Appendix II. The Discourse of Disputation: Three Comparative Typologies Bibliography
To cite this work:
Collins, Derek. 2004. Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry. Hellenic Studies Series 7. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.
