"In his 1986 article 'Early Greek Elegy, Symposium and Public Festival,' E.L. Bowie defined the symposium as the sole attested performance context for all our examples of shorter Greek elegy. This is not precisely a symposium; and that was not exactly an elegy. Yet as an introduction to some of the problems of persona, voice, and dialogue in the performance of Greek elegy, a performance from a mixed oral and literary tradition—and a situation that Theognis, lovesick elegist par excellence, would certainly recognize—seems a not inappropriate choice."
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So how did you get from the song to the paper?
"In his 1986 article 'Early Greek Elegy, Symposium and Public Festival,' E.L. Bowie defined the symposium as the sole attested performance context for all our examples of shorter Greek elegy. This is not precisely a symposium; and that was not exactly an elegy. Yet as an introduction to some of the problems of persona, voice, and dialogue in the performance of Greek elegy, a performance from a mixed oral and literary tradition—and a situation that Theognis, lovesick elegist par excellence, would certainly recognize—seems a not inappropriate choice."
I think it went over well.