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WA N D E R I N G P O E T S I N
A N C I E N T G R E E K C U LT U R E
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the con-
text for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers
travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this
central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the Near Eastern
societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early
semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who
travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic tyrants, and on into the fluid
mobility of imperial and late antique culture. The emphasis is both
on why poets travelled, and on how local communities used the skills
of these outsiders for their own purposes. Wandering poets are also set
within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage
and affiliation between communities and are seen as one particularly
powerful manifestation of a feature of ancient life which is too often
overlooked.
r ich ard h unter
is Regius Professor of Greek at the University
of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published
extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin Literature: his most recent
books include Plato’s
Symposium
(2004),
Tradition and Innovation
in Hellenistic Poetry
(with M. Fantuzzi, Cambridge,
2004)
and
The
Shadow of Callimachus
(Cambridge,
2006).
ian ru the r f ord
is Professor of Greek at the University of Read-
ing. His principal research interests are Greek lyric, religious practice
and state-pilgrimage, and the relations between Greek and eastern cul-
tures. His
Pindar’s Paeans
was published in
2001,
and he is an editor
of
Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the
Gods
(2005).
WA N D E R I N G P O E T S I N
A N C I E N T G R E E K C U LT U R E
Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
edi t e d by
R IC H A R D H U NT E R A N D I A N RU T H E R F O R D

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