Dithyramb in context / edited by Barbara Kowalzig and Peter Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kowalzig, Barbara, editor.

Wilson, Peter, 1964- editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Dithyramb.

Physical Description:

xvii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

The dithyramb, a choral song associated mostly with the god Dionysos, is the longest-surviving form of collective performance in Greek culture; it lasted 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. 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 in their turn 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, 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 inscriptions and the visual arts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The World of Dithyramb / Barbara Kowalzig Kowalzig, Barbara, Peter Wilson Wilson, Peter 1

I Social and Religious Contexts 29

2 Dancing Dolphins on the Wine-Dark Sea: Dithyramb and Social Change in the Archaic Mediterranean / Barbara Kowalzig Kowalzig, Barbara 31

3 Becoming like Dionysos: Dithyramb and Dionysian Initiation / Salvatore Lavecchia Lavecchia, Salvatore 59

4 Demeter and Dionysos in the Sixth-Century Argolid: Lasos of Hermione, the Cult of Demeter Chthonia, and the Origins of Dithyramb / Lucia Prauscello Prauscello, Lucia 76

5 Dithyramb and Greek Tragedy / Luigi Battezzato Battezzato, Luigi 93

II Defining an Elusive Performance Form 111

6 'The Name of the Dithyramb': Diachronic and Diatopic Variations / Giambattista D'Alessio D'Alessio, Giambattista 113

7 Athens and the Empire: The Contextual Flexibility of Dithyramb, and its Imperialist Ramifications / David Fearn Fearn, David 133

8 Circular Choruses and the Dithyramb in the Classical and Hellenistic Period: A Problem of Definition / Paola Ceccarelli Ceccarelli, Paola 153

9 The Semantics of Processional Dithyramb: Pindar's Second Dithyramb and Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting / Guy Hedreen Hedreen, Guy 171

10 Music and Movement in the Dithyramb / Armand D'Angour D'Angour, Armand 198

III New Music 211

11 'Songbenders of Circular Choruses': Dithyramb and the 'Demise of Music' / John Curtis Franklin Franklin, John Curtis 213

12 Kyklops Kitharoidos: Dithyramb and Nomos in Play / Timothy Power Power, Timothy 237

13 Satyr-Play, Dithyramb, and the Geopolitics of Dionysian Style in Fifth-Century Athens / Mark Griffith Griffith, Mark 257

14 Performance and the Drinking Vessel: Looking for an Imagery of Dithyramb in the Time of the 'New Music' / Alexander Heinemann Heinemann, Alexander 282

IV Towards a Poetics of Dithyramb 311

15 The Poetics of Dithyramb / Andrew Ford Ford, Andrew 313

16 The Dithyramb, a Dionysiac Poetic Form: Genre Rules and Cultic Contexts / Claude Calame Calame, Claude 332

17 Dithyramb in Greek Thought: The Problem of Choral Mimesis / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia 353

18 'One who is Fought over by all the Tribes': The Dithyrambic Poet and the City of Athens / Giorgio Ieranò Ieranò, Giorgio 368

V Dithyramb in the Roman Empire 387

19 Choruses and Tripods: The Politics of the Choregia in Roman Athens / Julia L. Shear Shear, Julia L. 389

20 Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus: Dionysiac Discourse at Rome / Ian Rutherford Rutherford, Ian 409.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

0199574685

9780199574681

OCLC:

854175952

Publisher Number:

99955049398