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Kinyras : the divine lyre / John Curtis Franklin ; with a study of Balang gods by Wolfgang Heimpel ; and illustrations by Glynnis Fawkes.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML169 .F73 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, John, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Hellenic studies ; 70.
- Hellenic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinyras (Greek mythology).
- Lyre--History.
- Lyre.
- Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.
- Music, Greek and Roman.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 794 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 Kinyras and Kinnaru 1
- Kinyras of Cyprus 1
- The Return of Kinnaru 4
- The Crux 5
- Plan of This Study and Preliminary Conclusions 7
- Pre-Greek, Greek, and Phoenician Cyprus 10
- Part 1 The Cult of Kinnaru
- 2 Instrument Gods and Musician Kings in Early Mesopotamia 19
- Divinized Instruments 19
- Gudea and the Balang-Gods of Ningirsu 26
- Shulgi and the Royal Ideal of Music 33
- Lovely Lyrics for Inanna 37
- Music and Seven-Magic 40
- Conclusion 41
- 3 The Knr 43
- Jubal: Looking Back from Israel 43
- Identifying the Knr 46
- The Lexical Evidence 53
- The Problems of Stringing and Tuning 57
- Limits of the Investigation 60
- 4 Starting at Ebla 63
- The City and Its Music 63
- Kinnarum and Balang 65
- Lamentation and Royal Ancestor Cult 67
- Divine Lyre at Ebla? 71
- 5 Mari and the Amorite Age 73
- The City and Its Music 73
- The Kinnaru at Mari 76
- The Amorite Connection 80
- Divine Instruments and the Amorite World 83
- Conclusion 87
- 6 Peripherals, Hybrids, Cognates 89
- The 'manna-Instrument' and Hittite Royal Ritual 89
- The Syro-Hurrian Sphere 96
- 'Asiatic' Lyres in Bronze Age Egypt 104
- 7 Kinnaru of Ugarit 113
- The King and His Musicians 113
- More about Kinnaru 119
- Praising Baal 125
- Bow and Lyre in the Tale of Aqhat 131
- Rap'iu, Kinnaru, and the Eternal Power of Music 134
- Silence of Kinnaru 141
- Isaiah and the Lyres of the Rephaim 146
- Conclusion 147
- 8 David and the Divine Lyre 149
- David, Solomon, and the Ideals of Great Kingship 150
- Musical Management in the First Temple 155
- The Kinnor and the Divine Lyre 158
- King, Kinnor, and the "Spirit of God" 165
- Performing the Divine Lyre 167
- Sweet Psalmist of Israel: David's Lyric Legacy 174
- Part 2 Kinyras on Cyprus
- 9 Kinyras the Kinyrist 187
- The Etymology of Kinyras 187
- The Conflict with Apollo 189
- Outplaying Orpheus and Thamyris 192
- The 'Greek' Kinýra 194
- "Our Kenyristes Apollo": Playing the Kinýra on Cyprus 203
- Lost in Translation: Kinýra at the Syro-Levantine Interface 213
- Conclusion 216
- 10 Praising Kinyras 219
- Pindar and the Example of Kinyras 219
- The Love of Apollo 226
- Singing 'about' Kinyras 231
- Caught in the Act: Two Model Shrines 236
- 11 Lyric Landscapes of Early Cyprus 241
- The Current Picture 241
- A Lost 'Daughter of Kinyras' in the Cyprus Museum 245
- Music, Memory, and the Aegean Diaspora 250
- Cypriot Lyres between East and West 253
- Ethnicity and Musical Identity in the Cypro-Phoenician Bowls 258
- The Case for Second-Millennium Adaptation of Kinýra 272
- Conclusion 276
- 12 Kinyras the Lamenter 279
- Kinyras and His Cult Family 280
- Between Song and Silence 291
- The Cypriot Linos-Song 304
- Phoinix Kinyrízon 316
- Epilogue: The Antinoos Lament from Kourion 318
- 13 The Talents of Kinyras 321
- Great Kingship 321
- Metallurge and Potter 324
- Kinyras the Mariner 326
- Oilman and Parfumeur 330
- The Virtuous Monarch 333
- Conclusion 335
- 14 Restringing Kinyras 337
- Aegean Foundation Legends and Epic Homecomings 337
- Kinyras, Dmetor, and the Changing States of Cyprus 342
- Liar King: The Terracotta Fleet and the Curse of Agamemnon 343
- The Unthroning of Kinyras 346
- Kinyras and Pre-Greek Social Topography 349
- Salamis: Euagoras, Teukros, and the Daughter of Kinyras 351
- Paphos: Agapenor, Laodike, and the Arcadian Connection 359
- Conclusion 368
- 15 Crossing the Water 371
- Alashiya and the Mainland Cults 371
- Importing the Divine Lyre 380
- Music and the Harmonious Realm 383
- From Divine Lyre to Culture-Hero 392
- 16 The Kinyradai of Paphos 401
- Tacitus and the Memories of the Paphian Priesthood 401
- Nikokles and the Kinyrad Legacy 407
- The Kinyradai in Hellenistic and Roman Times 417
- Sons of the Kinyra 421
- Part 3 Kinyras and the Lands Around Cyprus
- 17 Kinyras at Pylos 427
- Kinyras and the Priests 427
- Naming Kinyras in Greek 432
- Kinyras the Shipwright 436
- A Kinyras Complex 438
- 18 The Melding of Kinyras and Kothar 443
- Kothar and Kinnaru 443
- Philo of Byblos: Khousor and His Retiring Twin 445
- Etienne de Lusignan: Cinaras and His Retiring Twin 452
- The Craftsman-Musician Twins Mytheme 453
- Confounded Lyres? 456
- 19 Kinyras, Kothar, and the Passage from Byblos 459
- Kinyras, Kinnaru, and the Canaanite Shift 459
- Lucian: Kinyras at Aphaka 461
- Kinyras and Theias 466
- Ps.-Melito: Kauthar at Aphaka 468
- Goddess, King, and Copper 473
- The Cypro-Byhlian Interface 479
- Ritual Lamentation and the 'Damu' of Byblos 482
- Conclusion 486
- 20 Kinyras at Sidon? The Strange Affair of Abdalonymos 489
- 21 Syro-Cilician Approaches 495
- Aoios and Paphos: Two Cilician Crossings 498
- Solar Gods, Sandokos, and the Syrian Descent 504
- The Egyptian Detour 512
- THEIOS AOIDOS: The Lyre-Player Seals 517.
- Notes:
- Includes study printed after appendices: Balang gods / Wolfgang Heimpel.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Augmented by : Heimpel, Wolfgang. Balang gods.
- ISBN:
- 9780674088306
- 0674088301
- OCLC:
- 920672231
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