Alcman biography sample
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Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria
Carey, Chris. "Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria". Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination, edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Bowie, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, , pp.
Carey, C. (). Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria. In L. Athanassaki & E. Bowie (Ed.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (pp. ). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Carey, C. Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria. In: Athanassaki, L. and Bowie, E. ed. Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp.
Carey, Chris. "Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria" In Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Bowie, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter,
Carey C. Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria. In: Athanassaki L, Bowie E (ed.) Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemina
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Anyone who thinks of classical literature as a fixed corpus has not had much to do with ancient Greek lyric. Of the Alexandrian canon of nine lyric poets only Pindar has a medieval tradition, and that only of the epinikia. A hundred years ago the situation changed dramatically, and it has not stopped changing since. Complete poems still come few and far between—still none of Alkman&#;s, Stesichoros&#;, Ibykos&#;, Simonides&#;, or Alkaios&#;, and only one of Sappho&#;s—but the bits and pieces are varied and substantial, and continually transform the literary landscape. Denys Page&#;s Poetae Melici Graeci ( PMG) was a landmark, but papyrus accessions kept on coming. In his OCT Lyrica Graeca Selecta he was able to include as an appendix the newly published fragments of Stesichoros&#;Geryoneid, and his Supplementum Lyricis Graecis ( SLG) enhanced its otherwise meager attractions by extending its prescribed scope and appending the Cologne Archilochus. What has appeared since
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Choral poetry
Choral poetry is a type of lyric poetry that was created by the ancient Greeks and performed by choruses (see Greek chorus). Originally, it was accompanied by a lyre, a string instrument like a small U-shaped harp commonly used during Greek classical antiquity and later periods. Other accompanying instruments in later years included other string instruments such as the kithara, barbiton, and phorminx, as well as wind instruments such as the aulos, a double-reeded instrument similar to an oboe.
During public religious festivals and important family functions, performances of archaic choral lyric poetry were often presented by choruses of both men and women. The archaic choral lyric poetry spanned about three hundred years, starting with the poet, Alcman, in the 7th century BCE and evolving to the works of Timotheos (or Timotheus of Miletus) in the 4th century BCE.
In the beginning, choral poetry was mainly religious and the personal elements disappeared complet