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Derek Collins, Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry
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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
Acknowledgments
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many people who have contributed in large and small ways to the development of this book. They are: Susanna Braund, Don Cameron, Jenny Strauss Clay, Erwin Cook, John Miles Foley, Andrew Ford, Michael Gagarin, Traianos Gagos, John Garcia, Simon Goldhill, Richard Janko, Ludwig Koenen, Andre Lardinois, Richard Martin, Gregory Nagy, Jim Porter, Sara Rappe, Ruth Scodel, and Eva Stehle. Some were kind enough to read portions of the manuscript in whole or in part; others may not even remember the helpful suggestions they offered over dinner or drinks. Special thanks are owed to William H. Race, who read the entire manuscript near its final stages and made many improvements. To anyone whom I may have forgotten, I apologize.
I would like to thank the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan for awarding me a faculty fellowship in 2001-2, during which a substantial portion of this book was drafted. I thank the Director, Staff, the other faculty fellows, and my sponsor for the year, Director John Rich, for their encouragement, support, and good humor.
At the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., which selected me for a Junior Fellowship in 2003-4, I completed the book’s final phases. I owe special thanks to the Director, Staff, and other fellows for the marvelous resources they put at my disposal.
Finally, I dedicate this book to my wife, Kate, and to my sons Adam and Bryan, who have taught me more about competition than I ever imagined possible.