Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations
of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches
that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in
tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric
poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic mythological cultural musical and performative. The
collected essays demonstrate the dynamic and nuanced relationship between lyric poetry and
tragedy within the larger frame of Athenian song- and performance-culture and reveal a vibrant
and symbiotic co-existence between tragedy and lyric. Paths of Song illustrates the effects
that this dynamic engagement with lyric possibly had on tragic performances including
performances of satyr drama as well as on processes of survival and reputation selection and
refiguration tradition and innovation. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the
field of classics cultural studies and the performing arts as well as to readers interested
in poetic transmission and in cultural evolution in antiquity.
