10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THRENODIC»
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Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-century Attic Funerary Epigrams
22 W2 is indeed "the very first example of a rather personal threnodic poem
composed by Simonides",155 then the absence of "reflective, consolatory and
gnomic mood which characterises Pindar's threnoi"156 shows that lament poetry
could ...
2
Festival, Comedy and Tragedy: The Greek Origins of Theatre
Consequently it is clear that what we have here is a remnant of an ancient form in
which a threnos of the stasimon was followed by threnoi in which there was
dialogue chorus/actor or actors, with singing by the latter. The threnodic character
of ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, 1975
3
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
108 Jackie Murray (κήδεα μὲν сτονόεντα, 1) and the elegiac threnody in
Euripides' tragedy Andromache (420s BCE) are to be dismissed as evidence for
a subgenre of threnodic elegy, the former because of its sympotic performance
context ...
James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, 2010
4
The Poet at Play: Kallimachos, The Bath of Pallas
If they are prepared to concede that, while there is no Doric threnodic elegy, there
are threnodic elegies written in Doric, they may still appreciate the Bath of Pallas.
But I think that they are wrong. My own contribution will emerge from Chapter ...
5
A Companion to Roman Love Elegy
22 W2, reinforces the evidence for a genre of threnodic elegy (which the elegiac
lament of Euripides Andromache 103–16 would be evoking), coming from a
threnody for Antiochus, and itself representing the longing of Antiochus' mother ...
6
Research on Wole Soyinka
But given the exigencies of production - and the text itself - one wonders whether
a slippery substance like "threnodic ... Ghana in its abbreviated, peripatetic
version of the play manage to transport the "threnodic essence" from place to
place?
James Gibbs, Bernth Lindfors, 1993
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Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka
... an essay in which he essentially constructs a correspondence between Yoruba
and Greek cosmology, it becomes obvious that the “threnodic” essence that the
playwright ascribes to the play is not dissimilar to the deep threnody of the tragic
...
Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, 2007
8
The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric
It is possible to flag these ideas as threnodic ones in contexts where they are
specifically a response to death. For example, when Cassandra leaves the stage
in Agamemnon, she announces her desire to give a 'speech or thrēnos' ( , 1322–
3) ...
9
When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of ...
The threnodic feeling ofAjax's speech is found in other parts ofit as well. Ajax's
sweeping start meditates on time and change: “Great and immeasurable time
brings forth all things obscure and covers up what was clear” (do-r0026' o uo<1<
pog ...
10
Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica:
Above all, the theory of an originally threnodic elegy is inconsistent with the
whole developing panorama that the genre presents in its archaic, seventh-
century form. Here the range and complexity of themes are already sufficient to
exclude ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THRENODIC»
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threnodic is used in the context of the following news items.
Mythic Minis: Metamagic Feats
-Threnodic Spell: Affect living and undead at the same time or penalize one type's will-saves for a number of rounds – essentially a copy of Coaxing Spell in that ... «NERD TREK, Jul 15»
Friends Devoted To Preserving Legacy Of Bassman
Two of Elliot Bassman's pieces: Two Horse Heads With Bass (acrylic on canvas), and Threnodic Composition: Four Figures with Columns (acrylic on canvas). «Western Queens Gazette, Apr 15»
Swanhunter, Linbury Studio Theatre, review: 'pleasant but prosaic'
The net effect is pleasant, but prosaic and - oh dear - faintly patronising, with a drably downbeat and protracted threnodic conclusion. The band under Justin ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
The song that fought apartheid
... by Basil Coetzee, and with Robbie Jansen on alto sax and Monty Weber on drums, the 13-minute title track is threnodic, passionate and ethereally beautiful. «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 14»
Keith Jarrett in the Landscape of Bach
... Jarrett's threnodic accompaniment to the second Adagio of the E major Sonata, with Makarski soaring heavenward in the triplets above. As always in Bach, the ... «CounterPunch, Sep 13»
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry edited by Ian Hamilton …
One final threnodic note, though plenty of the entries he wrote remain, the one on Seymour-Smith himself – poet, critic, biographer, astrologer – is, alas, no more. «The Guardian, Aug 13»
Measure for measure
... Richard III, the Reed who as a young man could have made a seductively self-obsessed Hamlet, the Reed who would have been a thrashing, threnodic Lear. «Financial Times, Jun 13»
The Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Wigmore Hall, review
She sounded nervous in Schubert and Wolf lieder, but made a memserising histrionic showpiece out of James Macmillan's threnodic The Children. I'm not ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 12»
For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young
It is within this section that tragic moments begin to pull at something indistinguishably familiar and weave a threnodic tone that is both unshakeable and ... «Bookslut, Jan 07»
