Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece

• Examines the specific effects that musical accompaniment would have created in individual poems, opening up an understudied topic in contemporary scholarship
• Engages with technical issues in detail, enabling a greater understanding of the evidential and interpretative problems posed by the interaction of ancient music and language
• Supplements incisive discussion with clear figures and illustrations
• Draws on both wide coverage and an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the relevance of the subject to scholars beyond the field of classical studies

Prof. Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi's piece in the volume is entitled Lyric Atmospheres: Plato and Mimetic Evanescence