world of Dithyramb Dancing dolphins on the wine-dark sea. Becoming like Dionysos. Demeter and Dionysos in the sixth-century Argolid. Dithyramb and Greek tragedy. Name of the Dithyramb. Athens and the empire. Circular choruses and the Dithyramb in the classical and Hellenistic period. Semantics of processional Dithyramb. Music and movement in the Dithyramb. Songbenders of circular choruses. Kyklops Kitharoidos. Satyr-play, Dithyramb, and the geopolitics of Dionysian style in fifth-century Athens. Performance and the drinking vessel. Poetics of Dithyramb. Dithyramb, a Dionysiac poetic form. Dithyramb in Greek thought. One who is fought over by all the tribes Choruses and tripods. Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [424]-464) and indexes.
Contents:
The Paola Ceccarelli -- Peter Wilson -- I. Social and religious contexts : Circular choruses and the Dithyramb in the classical and Hellenistic period : a problem of definition / Barbara Kowalzig -- Becoming like Dionysos : Dithyramb and Dionysian intitiation / Salvatore Lavecchia -- Demeter and Dionysos in the sixth-century Argolid : Lasos of Hermione, the cult of Demeter Chthonia, and the origins of Dithyramb / Lucia Prauscello -- Dithyramb and Greek tragedy / Luigi Battezzato -- II. Defining an elusive performance form : 'The name of the Dithyramb' : diachronic and diatopic variations / Giambattista D'Alessio -- Athens and the empire : the contextual flexibility of Dithyramb, and its imperialist ramifications / David Fearn -- Circular choruses and the Dithyramb in the classical and Hellenistic period : a problem of definition / Paola Ceccarelli -- The 'One who is fought over by all the tribes' : the Dithyrambic poet and the city of Athens / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- Music and movement in the Dithyramb / Armand D'Angour -- The 'Songbenders of circular choruses' : Dithyramb and the 'demise of music' / John Curtis Franklin -- Kyklops Kitharoidos : Dithyramb and Nomos in play / Timothy Power -- Satyr-play, Dithyramb, and the geopolitics of Dionysian style in fifth-century Athens / Mark Griffith -- Performance and the drinking vessel : looking for an imagery of Dithyramb in the time of the 'new music' / Alexander Heinemann -- IV. Towards a poetics of Dithyramb : The poetics of Dithyramb / Andrew Ford -- The Dithyramb, a Dionysiac poetic form : genre rules and cultic contexts / Claude Calame -- Dithyramb in Greek thought : the problem of choral mimesis / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- 'One who is fought over by all the tribes' : the Dithyrambic poet and the city of Athens / Ian Rutherford. V. Dithyramb in the Roman Empire : Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus : Dionysiac discourse at Rome / Julia L. Shear -- Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus : Dionysiac discourse at Rome / Ian Rutherford.
Summary:
The dithyramb, a choral song associated mostly with the god Dionysos, is the longest-surviving form of collective performance in Greek culture, lasting in its shifting shapes from the seventh century BC into late antiquity. Yet it has always stood in the shadow of its more glamorous relations - tragedy, comedy, and the satyr-play. This volume, with contributions from international experts in the field, is the first to look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as an important social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. Dithyramb in Context explores the idea that the dithyramb is much more than a complex poetic form: the history of the dithyramb is a history of changing performance cultures which form part of a continuous social process. How the dithyramb functions as a marker, as well as a carrier, of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes as various as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, and history and politics. Drawing together literary critics, historians of religion, archaeologists, epigraphers, and historians, this volume applies a wide historical and geographical framework, scrutinizing the poetry and, for the first time, giving due weight to the evidence of epigraphy and the visual arts.
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