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      DithyrambSatyr PlayDionysiac CultSatyr Drama
In the present paper I discuss the generic identity of dithyrambic poetry starting with the famous Archilochus' fr. 120 West. My approach to the subject in the first section is analytical, in which I examine the key words of the... more
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      Choral LyricDithyrambPindarDionysus
À partir d’un célèbre fragment dithyrambique attribué à Archiloque (fr. 120 W, fr. 96 Lasserre), nous développons une série de considérations sur les rapports entre le culte de Dionysos et la dissémination du dithyrambe par les voies du... more
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      DithyrambDionysusArchilochus
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      PhilologyHistoryAncient HistoryCultural History
The textual, archaeological, linguistic and ethnographic evidence examined in this study supports the view that the Lower Dniester region is one of the oldest regions of wine-making. The documents, artifacts and linguistic evidence... more
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      Cognitive archaeologyDithyrambEnochEn
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      Greek TragedyDithyrambSatyr Play
В сборник включены материалы конференции «Индоевропейская история в свете новых исследований», посвященной памяти известного археолога и историка В.А. Сафронова. Для археологов, историков, специалистов в области гуманитарных наук и... more
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      History of ScienceHermes Trismegistus and HermeticaCognitive archaeologyDithyramb
Study of Kinesias, the Athenian "New Dithyrambist" often satirized by the Old Comic poets; in particular I examine the intersection of New Dithyramb and pre-Socratic philosophy, and the allegation that Kinesias "defecated on the... more
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      PhilologyAncient HistoryClassicsGreek Literature
The essay intends to comment on the news, documented by Vita Sophoclis 23, according to which Sophocles introduced in his songs the Phrygian melody and mixed it with the dithyrambic style. The analysis is conducted on the background of... more
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      Ancient Greek MusicSophoclesDithyrambAristoxenus
The relief fragment in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Inv. 12059 of unknown provenance comes from the left corner slab of the tympanon of a small pediment and carries a relief depicting a leftwards reclining Papposilenus, who... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyGreek Tragedy
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      Greek TragedyAncient Greek and Roman TheatreDithyrambWooden Architecture
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      Greek LiteratureGreek Lyric PoetryCallimachusGenre Theory
Figura di spicco delle nuove tendenze musicali che si affermano ad Atene nella seconda metà del V sec. a.C., Melanippide di Melo fu soprattutto autore di ditirambi, e proprio ἐν τῇ τῶν διθυράμβων μελοποιΐᾳ ἐκαινοτόμησε πλεῖστα, secondo... more
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      Greek Lyric PoetryDithyrambNew DithyrambMelanippides
Abstract The scholia to Plutus state that lines 290-301 are a parody of Philoxenos of Cythera’s Cyclops, from which Aristophanes allegedly took some literal quotes. This is the ancient interpretation, but it's possible to argue that the... more
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      AristophanesAristophanic comedyDithyrambPhiloxenus of Cythera
Tragedy takes its beginning from the ‘satyric’ and choral forms. As a dance genre that is strongly defined by the chorus, the satyr play, allegedly introduced later in order to compensate for the impending loss of a connection to... more
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      Greek LiteratureTheatre StudiesPerformativityDithyramb
Tämän runokokoelman kirjoittaja ei tehnyt kymmeneen vuoteen elämässään käytännöllisesti katsoen juuri mitään muuta kuin nukkui. Hänen psyykeensä sairaudeksi luokiteltua tilaa koetettiin analysoida mm. lääketieteen, fysiikan, kemian,... more
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      GnosticismChristian MysticismShamanismSufism
Античката драма ги обединува различните драмски видови кои се појавуваат во хеленската и во римската книжевност, а кои се издвојуваат од драмските видови во другите книжевности според различните особености на книжевниот облик и на... more
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      Greek TragedyHellenistic LiteratureMenanderRoman Drama
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      Greek ComedyGreek Lyric PoetryDithyrambHymnology
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      Greek TragedyAncient Greek and Roman TheatreDithyrambWooden Architecture
Bacchylides’ persona is rarely visible within his poetry, and it is unsurprising that this seeming absence has been seen as a deficiency. This paper explores the absence of the poetic persona from Bacchylides’ poetry as part of a... more
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      Pindar and BacchylidesNarratologyPerformanceDithyramb
This paper explores the melic poets’ take on art and its sponsors. Since much has been written on the relationship of epinician poets with their patrons, this paper broadens the focus of enquiry to include other melic genres and, in... more
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      God, Gods, GoddessesDithyrambPindarSponsorship
This paper aims at analyzing Bacchylides' dithyrambs 17 and 18 on the deeds of Theseus under an intervisual point of view, in order to envisage allusions and references to contemporary artistic production. This is due to the fact that... more
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      DithyrambBacchylidesArchaic Greek Lyric PoetryIntervisuality
A paper I wrote in my 1st year; full of youth, philosophical ambition, and pessimistic prowess.
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      PoetryFriedrich NietzschePhilosophy of ValueAncient Greek Philosophy
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      Greek TragedyDithyrambSatyr PlayDionysos
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      Ancient Greek and Roman TheatreGreek VasesDithyrambSatyr Play
he lexical variety in Bacchylides’ dithyrambs has often been considered as evidence of his aim of innovation. This variety also makes of him a precursor of the New Dithyramb. A study of his compounds allows us to realise that there are... more
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      Classical philologyLexicography and Corpus StudiesDithyrambBacchylides
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      Ancient HistoryClassicsTheatre StudiesAthenian Democracy
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      Greek LiteratureFestivals and musicPerformance StudiesPlay
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      Greek ComedyAnimals in ArtDance HistoryAncient Greek Dance
P. Vindob 19996a col. II 2 contains a few lines from a Dionysiac dithyramb that has arised different readings. Several Dionysiac festivals – the Great Dionysia, the Anthesteria or a possible mystic ritual– are also analyzed because the... more
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      Greek LiteratureMysteries (Greek Religion)Ancient Greek ReligionMystery cult
Discussion of the identification and classification of Bacchylides' fr.60 M. in connection with the poem Kassandra in P.Oxy.23.2368.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0599796.0051.001:09
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      PapyrologyGenreGreek Lyric PoetryCallimachus
Ancient Greek poets' Lives usually contrast the poet's relationship to his native city with his activities in other cities, which are deemed to require explanation. This feature has been noted in the Lives of poets such as Euripides and... more
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      Ancient HistoryAncient BiographyDithyrambPindar
This study offers an interpretation of Plutarch’s preface to De audiendis poetis that points out its expository and thematic coherence. This suggests that the author of the dithyrambs Philoxenus of Kythera (ca. 435-380 BC) may have also... more
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      PlutarchDithyrambPhiloxenus of CytheraParemiography
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      Greek TragedyPindar and BacchylidesVisualizationPolitics
Philological and literary commentary. Corrections. New interpretation of a long-debated problem in Pherecrate's fragment.
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      Greek LiteratureGreek ComedyPlutarchAncient Greek Music
Résumé. – Dans cet article, l’auteur analyse les difficultés interprétatives que posent les vers 445-454 de l’Alceste d’Euripide, à savoir la pertinence de l’opposition entre les « chants sur la lyre » et les « chants sans lyre » et de... more
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureGreek TheatreEuripides
This article addresses the question of how the dithyramb was classified in antiquity, examining in detail two fragmentary papyri (P.Graec.Vindob. 19996a–b; P.Berol. 9671 verso) alongside other testimonia which comment on the nature and... more
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      PlatoRitualGreek Lyric PoetryGreek Papyrology
Der Dionysus-Paian des Philodamos Scarphaeus, ein Beispiel epigraphicher Paiandichtung aus dem 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., gilt im Rahmen der erhaltenen Paiane und in Bezug auf gängige Definitionen dieses Genres als atypischer Paian. Vor... more
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      Hellenistic LiteratureDithyrambDionysusPaean
This article is a translation of Bacchylides' Dithyramb 18, entitled Theseus, accompanied by commentaries and analysis divided into a) general, and b) specific. The first two parts of the article are directed towards mapping the author... more
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      Greek Lyric PoetryDithyrambBacchylidesTheseus myth
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      DithyrambBacchylidesBacchylides 17
Abstract: Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout... more
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      Greek LiteratureAthenian DemocracyGreek Lyric PoetryDithyramb
This paper is concerned with the reading specifically of Bacchylides in Aristophanes. It argues in favour of the use of Bacchylides’ Ode 5 to Hieron in Birds 1373-1409 as well as for the poem’s reconfiguration by Kinesias within the... more
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      MusicGreek ComedyAristophanesAristotle
The present study aims to solve the controversy concerning the identity and provenance of the poet Philoxenus, a famous dithyrambist from the 5th-4th century B.C. For this purpose, every account quoting a character called Philoxenus since... more
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureEarly Greek poetryDithyramb
The present study aims to solve the controversy concerning the identity and provenance of the poet Philoxenus, a famous dithyrambist from the 5th-4th century B.C. For this purpose, every account quoting a character called Philoxenus since... more
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      Greek LiteratureAristophanesPoetryAuthorship Attribution
Poetry in lieu of thinking. Reflections on the genesis of song in the third part of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. The chapter Von der grossen Sehnsucht opens the final section of Nietzscheʼs Also sprach Zarathustra with a speech in which... more
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      Friedrich NietzscheDithyrambPoetologyPhilosophy and poetry
This paper focuses on representations in Greek poets’ Lives of the relationship between the poet and his native city; these are important for the understanding of poetic reception and poetic status in Antiquity. Biographies usually... more
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      Ancient BiographyDithyrambPindar
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      Greek EpigraphyDithyrambDionysiac CultKos