The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic
| Autor: | Ewen Lyall Bowie |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Trochaic tetrameter
Battle History media_common.quotation_subject cremation epitaphios tetrameter aulos Context (language use) Trochee Elegy lcsh:DE1-100 lcsh:P1-1091 lcsh:History of the Greco-Roman World Solon elegy inscription Archilochus military media_common Literature biology business.industry Thasos trochaic Iambic pentameter General Medicine biology.organism_classification lcsh:Philology. Linguistics Elite rhapsodia business Paros |
| Zdroj: | Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, Vol 31, Iss 2, Pp 31-43 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2176-6436 0103-4316 |
| Popis: | The paper explores the evidence for the archaic performance context or contexts of Archilochus’ and Solon’s trochaic tetrameter catalectic poems, noting that they were chanted rather than sung or spoken and thus different from both elegy and iambic trimeters. It argues that in Archilochus’ fragments apparently lengthy battle-narratives, concern with the polis as a whole, and addresses to elite individuals point to their first audience being a formal gathering of warrior-citizens, perhaps before a battle, or perhaps at a mass cremation following a battle such as that attested by the late-eighth-century polyandrion in Paroikia. It is suggested that Solon’s very political tetrameters may also have been addressed to a formal citizen assembly, with possible reperformance at the Apatouria. |
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