MASTER OF THE GAME

The interest in the performance of ancient Greek poetry has grown dramatically in recent years. But the competitive dimension of Gre ek poetic performances, while usually assumed, has rarely been directly addressed. This study provides for the first time an in-dept h examination of a central mode of Greek poetic competitioncapping, which occurs when speakers or singers respond to one another in small numbers of verses, single verses, or between verse units themselves. Anyone concerned with the performance of archaic and cla ssical Gr...[Read more]