Contents
Conventions
Introduction: Language and Identity
Chapter 1. The Rhetoric and Discourse of Groupness
Chapter 2. Constructing Group Identity: Tyrtaeus and Martial Lyric
Chapter 3. Threats to Social Identity: Alcaeus on Exile and Betrayal
Chapter 4. The Group and the Individual: Solon and Political Lyric
Conclusion: Identity through Poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Poem Index with First Lines
Subject Index