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The Canonical Nine on the Comic Stage

Chapter 2 looks at the comic genre as a source of information about the Athenian audience’s knowledge and recognition of the lyric poets and their compositions. Comedy makes use of biographical and anecdotal features of several lyric poets who are parodied on stage, and demonstrates a profound awareness of generic features and also of cultic and performative characteristics of various lyric song-types. Lyric poets are contextualized in several comic symposia that are depicted as settings of lyric reception and as possible contexts of the survival of lyric poetry in Athens. In several cases one observes how comedy reflects the evolutionary process of canonization and the emerging distinction between the old and the popular new in lyric poetry, a distinction that eventually led to the formation of the Lyric Canon. The evidence suggests that canonizing process of lyric is obvious already in the fifth-century Athenian literary background.