10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DITHYRAMB»
Discover the use of
dithyramb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dithyramb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The editors look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity.
Barbara Kowalzig, Peter Wilson, 2013
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Nietzsche and Depth Psychology
THE DIONYSIAN DITHYRAMB Archilochus and Pindar are dithyrambists in the
old style. A significant aspect of Nietzsche's prophetic and redemptive style and
voice is faithful to the old dithyramb in that as a prophet his "I" originates beyond ...
Jacob Golomb, Weaver Santaniello, Ronald L. Lehrer, 1999
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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, ...
The dithyramb But before moving on to choral forms in which the choregos sings
most of the sung part of the performance, I shall speak briefly about the second
lyric genre, the dithyramb, which had a definite shape as early as the Archaic ...
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
A great impetus was given to choral poetry by its application to the dithyramb.
This ancient Bacchanalian performance, the origin of which is at any rate earlier
than Archilochus, who in one of the fragments of his poetry, says that " he knows
...
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The Primitive Spring Dance Or
Dithyramb in Ancient Greece
THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459596X.
Jane Ellen Harrison, 2010
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The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the ...
These sums support what a scholiast commenting on a speech of Demosthenes (
20.28) made explicit: 'at the Great Dionysia the outlay was larger (sc. than for the
Thargelia)'.1'>4 The fact that we have figures for men's dithyramb spent by the ...
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History of the literature of ancient Greece
The dithyramb, from which tragedy probably took its origin, turned upon the
sorrows of Dionysus. This appears from the remarkable account of Herodotus,
that in Sicyon, in the time of the tyrant Cleisthenes (about 600 B.C.), tragic
choruses had ...
Karl Otfried Müller, 1840
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A guide to the reading of the Greek tragedians: being a ...
THE EARLY BACCHIC HYMN WAS CALLED DITHYRAMB, NOT TRAGEDY.
Besides this, we have very good authority, that those Bacchic hymns, from
whence the regular tragedy came, were originally called by another name, not
tragedy ...
John Richardson Major, 1844
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
The most important event in the history of Greek choral poetry was the adaptation
of the dithyramb, or old liacchic song, to the system of Doric choruses ; for it was
to this that we owe the Attic drama. The dithyramb was originally of the nature of ...
Greek antiquities, sir William Smith, 1842
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The theatre of the Greeks a series of paper relating to the ...
Pindar, the great pupil of Lasos, speaks with disapprobation of this style of
Dithyramb, which, however, his own better example failed to correct : " Formerly,"
he says, "the Dithyramb crawled along in lengthy rhythms, and the * was falsified
in its ...
John William DONALDSON, 1849
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DITHYRAMB»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
dithyramb is used in the context of the following news items.
Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award
His is a poet's prose, given to dithyramb, and it can't be hurried along.” Dirda ends his review by saying that the book is not simply an ... «Iowa Now, Jul 15»
Cinema silent & green
Silent films are an extinct art-form, alas, like the sonnet or dithyramb. Watching these 90- or 100-year-old relics of the past is a curious ... «Bay Area Reporter, May 15»
Musical unity in linguistic diversity
Audiences will get to enjoy arrangements like “A Prayer For Peace” by Paul Fetler; “Dravidian Dithyramb” by Victor Paranjoti (which has traces ... «The Hindu, May 15»
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras Named in TIME's 100 Most Influential …
The secretary general's “dithyramb” about Tsipras concludes: “Today he is a responsible head of government who has impressed Europe with ... «Greek Reporter, Apr 15»
Why Stephen King's Road To Hell Is Paved With Adverbs
"Some writers have enormous vocabularies; these are the folks who'd know if there really is such a thing as an insalubrious dithyramb or a ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
Michael Dirda reviews 'The Immortal Evening' by Stanley Plumly
His is a poet's prose, given to dithyramb, and it can't be hurried along. Still, now and again, Plumly offers up a weary-hearted or shrewdly ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
'Forrest Gump' runs into history
... (the uproariously original Mykelti Williamson), whose dithyramb about the many ways of cooking shrimp binds together the vignettes of basic ... «OCRegister, Sep 14»
Dithy ... what? A new music house
Now for that Dithyrambalina word: Its root is the word dithyramb, an ancient Greek choral hymn sung and danced in honor of the wine god, ... «NolaVie, Apr 14»
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
In ancient Greece a dithyramb was a wild choral hymn and dance, especially one dedicated to Bacchus. Thoreau didn't drink alcohol, but ... «NPR, Feb 14»
Rebecca Lane on publishing
... covering everything from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque, ... «OUPblog, Jan 14»
