Lyric for the Rulers, Lyric for the people. The transformation of some lyric subgenres in Hellenistic poetry

This is a meticulous survey of the reception of some lyric subgenres in\r\nHellenistic poetry. Leaving aside lyric in a religious context, the paper is divided\r\ninto two main sections, namely lyric poetry composed for rulers and lyric poetry\r\nwritten for everyday people. In the new social context lyric poetry was intended\r\nfor presentation in the the royal symposia. The Alexandrians wrote all types of\r\noccasional lyric poetry (enkomia, epinikia, epithalamia, threnoi and epikedeia), a\r\nfact that is reflected both in the work of distinguished poets, such as Callimachus,\r\nPosidippus and Theocritus as well as in the epigrammatic tradition and in poetic\r\nfragments found on papyri. Special attention is given to stichic lyric poetry and\r\nto the new genre of the mime, whereas the oral tradition of the carmina popularia\r\nand the making of lyric anthologies for symposiastic use complete the picture.