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Author : M. J. H. van der Weiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dithyramb
ISBN : UCSC:32106009738961
Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787997
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author : Barbara Kowalzig,Peter Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199574681
The editors look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, history and politics.
Author : Isidore Silver
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : French poetry
ISBN : 2600030948
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857734785
The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic festivals and Olympian games. Yet Pindar, though still respected, is now considered a difficult poet, and is sometimes dismissed as a reactionary, celebrating an aristocratic world that was passing and that deserved to pass. In this first work on the subject for many years, Richard Stoneman shows that Pindar's works, while at first seeming obscure and fragmentary, reward further study. An unmatched craftsman with words, and witness to a profoundly religious sensibility, he is a poet who takes modern readers to the heart of Greek ideas about the gods, fleeting human achievement and fallibility. The author examines questions of performance and genre; patronage; imagery; and reception, beginning with Horace.
Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521599776
A 2004 selection of songs of praise and songs for choral performances composed by Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC).
Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107171718
Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.
Author : Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803230796
Ancient Greek music and music theory has fascinated scholars for centuries not only because of its intrinsic interest as a part of ancient Greek culture but also because the Greeks? grand concept of music has continued to stimulate musical imaginations to the present day. Unlike earlier treatments of the subject, Apollo?s Lyre is aimedøprincipally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages. The basic method and scope of the study are set out in a preliminary chapter, followed by two chapters concentrating on the role of music in Greek society, musical typology, organology, and performance practice. The next chapters are devoted to the music theory itself, as it developed in three stages: in the treatises of Aristoxenus and the Sectio canonis; during the period of revival in the second century C.E.; and in late antiquity. Each theorist and treatise is considered separately but always within the context of the emerging traditions. The theory provides a remarkably complete and coherent system for explaining and analyzing musical phenomena, and a great deal of its conceptual framework, as well as much of its terminology, was borrowed and adapted by medieval Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic music theorists, a legacy reviewed in the final chapter. Transcriptions and analyses of some of the more complete pieces of Greek music preserved on papyrus or stone, or in manuscript, are integrated with a consideration of the musicopoetic types themselves. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography for the field, updating and expanding the author?s earlier Bibliography of Sources for the Study of Ancient Greek Music.
Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Athletics in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015005254589
Author : Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161531264
The claim that Revelation's hymns function as did Classical tragic choral lyrics insofar as they comment upon or interpret the surrounding narrative has become axiomatic in studies of Revelation. Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler marks an advance in this line of inquiry by offering an exegetical analysis of Revelation's hymns alongside a presentation of the forms and functions of ancient tragic choruses and choral lyrics. Evaluating the hymns in light of the varieties and complexities of ancient tragic choruses, he demonstrate that they are not best evaluated in terms of choral lyrics generally, but in terms of dramatic hymns in particular, insofar as they constitute mythological-theological reflections on the surrounding narrative, and function to situate the surrounding dramatic activity in a particular mythological-theological contexts.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191530357
Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the `severe style' in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.
Author : Richard Neer,Leslie Kurke
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421429786
Rooted in close readings of individual poems, buildings, and works of art, Pindar, Song, and Space ranges from Athens to Libya, Sicily to Rhodes, to provide a revelatory new understanding of the world the Greeks built—and a new model for studying the ancient world.
Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198745730
The book was published in late 2015, but the year of publication and copyright is given as 2016 on the title-page verso.
Author : Laura Massetti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004694132
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar’s compositional technique.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199803064
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