1. Mimnermos, Ibycus, Anacreon
Archaic Greek Poetry
Mimnermos, Ibycus, Anacreon

3. The Greek-speaking world in 550 BCE

4. Symposium « drinking party » late Archaic Klazomenian sarcophagus

5. Exterior of an Athenian bf cup, c. 520 BCE

6. Interior of an Athenian bf cup, c. 520 BCE

7. Grenfell and Hunt c. 1896

8. Ibycus PMG SLG 151

9. Symposium « drinking party » late Archaic Klazomenian sarcophagus

10. Symposium Attic rf cup, c. 490 BCE

11. ‘Lyric’ poetry Iambi: coarse, low-class content, sexual narratives.
Often in iambic meter.
Apparently spoken.
Possibly performed at public festivals in association with fertility rituals; also at symposia.
Archilochus, Hipponax.
Elegy:
Intermediate style
Elegiac couplets.
Probably sung to the aulos (double-pipe)
Short couplets of advice or erotic sentiments (Mimnermus, Theognidea) probably performed at symposium.
Longer narrative elegies or poems of military exhortation performed at festivals or even on campaign (Tyrtaeus).
Melic (melos, limb; song):
lyric meters; elevated language
Sung to accompaniment of the lyre.
Traditional division betw monody (solo singer) and choral poetry (sung and danced by chorus).
Alcman, Sappho, Pindar