Outputs (2)

Music in Euripides' Medea (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Music in Euripides' Medea. In T. Phillips, & A. D'Angour (Eds.), Music, text and culture in Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press

Argues for the plausibility of Athenaeus' evidence that Euripides' Medea contained an innovative treatment of melody, and discusses how this may have interacted with what the characters within the play say about musical innovations.

Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In F. Budelmann, & T. Phillips (Eds.), Textual events: performance and the lyric in early Greece. Oxford University Press

The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boun... Read More about Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.