All but one of the 17 papers are from an international conference at Rethymnon, Crete, in May 2007, and that one from the inaugural meeting of the Network for the Study of the Archaic and
Classical Greek Song during June 2008 in Oxford, England. Focusing here on choral song, classicists, philologists, and other scholars discuss such topics as Alcman's first Partheneion and the
song the Sirens sang, the parrhesia of young female choruses in ancient Greece, a second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides, Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai, and
choral self-awareness in the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus; Supplices. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
