Elizabeth Irwin is Research Fellow at Girton College Cambridge. She is the author of articles on Greek literature and a contributor to The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (editor Richard Hunter) (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Introduction
Part I. The Politics of Exhortation: Introduction
1. Understanding the political in martial exhortation
2. Synthesising content and context
3. Contextualising the city: archaic verse inscriptions and the 'rise' of the polis
Part II. Political Poetics: Solon's Eunomia: Introduction
4. Solon 4 and martial poetry
5. Solon's Odyssey
6. Solon 4 and Hesiod
Part III. Poetry and Political Culture: Introduction
7. Solon and the language of the tyrant
8. Rewriting (some) history: Solon and Peisistratus
Conclusion.
