10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALLIAMBIC»
Discover the use of
galliambic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
galliambic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies in Catullan Verse: An Analysis of Word Types and ...
Galliambic Metre," CR 7, 1893, 145-146 (Thompson 1) against ionic, holding
both halves iambic; G. Dunn, "The Galliambic Metre," CR 7, 1893, 146-148,
imaginatively calling it logaoedic tripodies and tetrapodies composed of irrational
dactyls ...
2
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
galliambic Galatea \,gal-3-'te-3\ In Greek mythology, a Nereid who was loved by
the Cyclops Polyphemus. Galatea, however, loved the youth Acis. When
Polyphemus discovered Acis and Galatea together, he crushed Acis to death with
a ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
3
Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, abridged and ...
OF THE GALLIAMBIC VERSE. § 44.4. The Galliambic verse is composed of two
Anacreontics, of which the last is catalectic; in this form: 11001.12, prrrpos Jpelns
qnMOwpoot 6.1.4.66“, ais é'vrea mrwyeirat ital xc'thxeu. ._ I I I I ,N__l__ [ v,,___ .
Johann Gottfried Jacob HERMANN, John SEAGER, 1830
4
Elements of the Doctrine of Metres
OF THE GALLIAMBIC VERSE. § 444. The Galliambic verse is composed of two
Anacreontics, of vthich the last is catalectic; in this form: TaXXat, firirpos opehjs <
piX60vpaoi bpou&btt, ats eVrea irarayeirai Kal j(&Xjeea 102 GALLIAMBIC
VERSE ...
5
Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime
The galliambic verse was the metre used in the actual rites of the Galli in honour
of the Great Mother and took its name from the self-castrating priests of the
goddess Cybele whose ritual included processions with music and dance of
orgiastic ...
Metre: Galliambic. In Greek, no doubt some models existed for a hymn or other
poem to Cybele in ionic metre, which was so closely and particularly associated
with Cybele-worship that it was called 'galliambic' or prjTpwaKOs. A pair of lines
in ...
We find obdr again as the last word of the poem, again in the final position: at t ,
Catulle, dstintus obdr (“but you, Catullus, keep your mind made up, stand fast,”
8.19). Galliambic. Catullus' most astonishing meter is the galliambic, the meter of.
8
The Dublin University Magazine
A LITTLE GALLIAMBIC. BY WILLIAM FORSYTIT. Tell me not of loveliness fading j
Dream not, dearest, of love's decay, Like the roses, blooming and shedding All
their bliss on a summer day. No, no 1 adown by the valleys Flowers are thoughts,
...
9
Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the Literature of Greece ...
In his eight-stress trochaic lines Tennyson approximates the Catullan galliambic,
which is characteristically represented as follows: « w _ w _ w — I w w_w wv- — .
One of the most notable characteristics of the Catullan galliambic is the ...
10
A Commentary on Catullus
To the same period 1 perhaps belongs the earliest extant specimen of the
Galliambic metre peculiarly associated with the cultus (Hephaestion xii. p. 39
Westphal) raXXai ^rpoy opeir/s <pih68vpo-oi Spofiddes, Ais evrea irarayeirai nai
xriXicea ...
