10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIRRHEMA»
Discover the use of
epirrhema in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
epirrhema and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Festival, Comedy and Tragedy: The Greek Origins of Theatre
In two of them there is an intermediate speech, the rhesis of the LC involved in
the epirrhema (Seven 203 ff., Persae 694 ff.); in another, the epirr- hema follows
on directly (Choephori 973 ff.); in only one do we find the type which I considered
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Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, 1975
If no further references are given 'Priscian' means 'Priscian in his Institutiones'. 2
When the Roman grammarians translated the Greek term by adverbium, they
apparently interpreted 'epirrhema' in a neutral sense: 'what is placed with the
verb'.
3
Tradition and Dramatic Form in "The Persians" of Aeschylus
1B Here, as in the first epirrhema, we hear of some presumed reactions by the
Queen— whether active (wails) or passive (silence)— that we as audience could
not have noticed during a lyric passage in which she took no part. The Queen's ...
4
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy
After each ofthese comes a recited passage comprising either sixteen or twenty
catalectic trochaic tetrameters, the epirrhema (the “afterwards speech”, i.e. a
speech following upon a sung portion) and its matching antepirrhema. In this
portion ...
Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro, 2014
Thesm. has a very stripped- down parabasis, possessing [b] + [c] and only one
epirrhema [f]. There is no formal parabasis in Eccl. or Plutus. The chorus
sometimes speaks of "stripping off for our anapests" (Ach. 627); this may be
meant ...
Aristophanes, Peter Meineck, 2000
Epirrhema. Miisset im Naturbetrachten Immer eins wie alles achten; Nichts ist
drinnen, nichts ist draufien: Denn was innen, das ist aufien. So ergreifet ohne
Saumnis Heilig offentlich Geheimnis. Freuet euch des wahren Scheins, Euch des
...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1998
7
Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The ...
Epirrhema.* Semichorus. The sacred chorus it behoves to counsel, And
recommend to th' practice of the state An Argive who in Argos was not born, But '
mongst its native denizens by force Obtain'd a seat ; in tumult he relied, And an
unletter'd ...
8
The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
It is a simply and symmetrically constructed piece which consists in a short ode
and antode, each of ten dactylo-epitrite verses, alternating with the epirrhema
and ante- pirrhema, two short (twenty line) addresses to the audience in trochaic
...
9
Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC- ...
... the fact that the epirrhema and antepirrhema of Clouds are closely related. For
our purposes, particularly interesting is the reference in the epirrhema to the
Moon going out of her path at the moment of Cleon's election to the strategia (
Nub.
10
The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles
It is also probably not accidental that the elders had not mentioned Orestes in the
epirrhema: although Clytaemestra's punishment was virtually bound to come
from her son, her powerful argumentation, and perhaps the horror of matricide,
may ...
