New Approaches to Classics Lecture: Professor Patrick Finglass

Title: Chariots of Song: Editing Lyric Metaphor at the Great Library of Alexandria Description: This paper is focused on the organization of Alexandrian editions of Archaic lyric poetry. After examining how these editions were organized, and how we can tell, it argues that significant connections can be drawn between different editions in terms of the placement of particular poems – connections which themselves generate meaning and reveal the editor as a participant in the creative process.