Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago) will be giving a lecture on music and the body at Princeton on Tuesday Dec. 5 at 4:30. The title of the talk, “Does the heart beat? And other questions about rhythm, bodies and time in archaic Greek poetry,” points to her recent research on song and poetry in ancient Greece and their effects on our perception of time and mortality. Her web page on the university’s website explains further:
One [upcoming project] will be a book of essays on poems of the archaic and classical period and forms of embodiment. Here are I argue that Greek poets found varying ways to counter the deleterious effects of time by inscribing poetry within the physical and corporeal world. This project looks at forms of composition, performance, and also transmission, suggesting that rhythm, mimesis, and metaphor are to be understood in the same frame as papyrus finds, inscriptions on stone, and conceptions of futurity so to appreciate the powerful intervention of Greek poetry.
The talk will be held at East Pyne Hall, Room 010 on Princeton’s campus.
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