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What Color Is the Pindaric Sacred
In Greek Lyric and the Sacred= Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 6 Edited by Lucia Athanassaki & André Lardinois. Leiden (Brill) 2026
, 2026
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the cc by-nc 4.0 license. chapter 7...
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This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the cc by-nc 4.0 license. chapter 7 martin 1 Chart 1: Ten Pindaric Colors and Sacred Associations [+ denotes clearly +DIVINE/SACRED; *denotes on maximal interpretation] 1 Blue (kyan-) *Olympian 6.40-41 λόχμας ὑπὸ κυανέας / τίκτε θεόφρονα κοῦρον (divine offspring) +Olympian 13.70-71 κυάναιγις … οἱ παρθένος τόσα εἰπεῖν *Fr. 70c line 5 κυανοχίτων / ]τεὰν τε[λετ]ὰν μελίζοι (festival of Dionysus) 2 Gray/light blue (glauk-) +Olympian 6.45-46 δύο δὲ γλαυκῶπες αὐτόν δαιμόνων βουλαῖσιν ἐθρέψαντο δράκοντες +Olympian 3.13 ἀμφὶ κόμαισι βάλῃ γλαυκόχροα κόσμον ἐλαίας (crown) +Olympian 7.50-51 ὤπασε τέχναν πᾶσαν ἐπιχθονίων Γλαυκῶπις ἀριστοπόνοις χερσὶ κρατεῖν. *Olympian 8.37-40 γλαυκοὶ δὲ δράκοντες, … οἱ δύο μὲν κάπετον αὖθι δ᾽ ἀτυζόμενοι ψυχὰς βάλον, εἷς δ᾽ ἐνόρουσε βοάσαις. *Pythian 4.249 κτεῖνε μὲν γλαυκῶπα τέχναις ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν +Nemean 10.7 Διομήδεα δ᾽ ἄμβροτον ξανθά ποτε Γλαυκῶπις ἔθηκε θεόν· 3 Green (chlor-) Nemean 8.40-41 αὔξεται δ᾽ ἀρετά, χλωραῖς ἐέρσαις ὡς ὅτε δένδρεον ᾄσσει22 *Fr. 122 line 3-5 αἵ τε τᾶς χλωρᾶς λιβάνου ξανθὰ δάκρη θυμιᾶτε, πολλάκι ματέρ᾽ ἐρώτων οὐρανίαν πτάμεναι νοήματι πρὸς Ἀφροδίταν Fr. 128f line 7-9 ὁ δὲ χλωραῖς οἴχεται Καινεὺς σχίσαις ὀρθῷ ποδί γᾶν. [? Pythian 9.38 Centaur 'smiles greenly': ἀγανᾷ χλοαρὸν γελάσσαις ὀφρύι] 4 Purple (porphyr-) *Olympian 6.55 ἴων ξανθαῖσι καὶ παμπορφύροις ἀκτῖσι βεβρεγμένος ἁβρόν σῶμα Pythian 4.114-115 κρύβδα πέμπον σπαργάνοις ἐν πορφυρέοις, νυκτὶ κοινάσαντες ὁδόν +Pythian 4.182-183 Ζήταν Κάλαΐν τε πατὴρ Βορέας, ἄνδρας πτεροῖσιν νῶτα πεφρίκοντας ἄμφω πορφυρέοις *Nemean 11.28-29 κωμάσαις ἀνδησάμενός τε κόμαν ἐν πορφυρέοις ἔρνεσιν (crown) 5 Red (phoinik-) Olympian 6.39 ἁ δὲ φοινικόκροκον ζώναν καταθηκαμένα +Olympian 6.94-95 φοινικόπεζαν / ἀμφέπει Δάματρα λευκίππου τε θυγατρὸς ἑορτάν Retaining the text of codices BD in preference to emended version in Snell-Maehler.
Into the Woods: Reading the Iliad with Boeotian Cult
Panoussi, Vassiliki and Hutton, William. Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome, De Gruyter, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111197456
, 2025
A comparative study of treatments in epic and cult related to the Daidala rituals in Boeotia.
Hearing epic, living heroes: cult-connected moments in Homeric poetry
Synthesis 29.1
, 2022
on cult related to Zeus and some passages in the Iliad
Gnomes in Poems: Wisdom Performance on the Athenian Stage
SSRN Electronic Journal
, 2005
An ethnography-of speaking-approach to proverb-use lets us explore the deployment of this genre a...
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An ethnography-of speaking-approach to proverb-use lets us explore the deployment of this genre as part of personal self-projection and of social life. Greek drama, by presenting proverbs in the mouths of its staged characters, makes use of the ordinary performance value of this "genre of speaking" while constructing a broader theatrical event. Characters can be judged on the basis of their skill at proverb-use, and important junctures in the plays can be marked by the employment of gnômai. Resistance to proverbs, and misuse of the genre (whether or not intentional) further mark speakers. This paper will appear in the Festschrift for John Papademetriou.
Keens from the Absent Chorus:" Troy to Ulster
Western folklore
, 2003
... 16 In this interpretation, the divine performance recounted in Odyssey 24 would match lament ...
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... 16 In this interpretation, the divine performance recounted in Odyssey 24 would match lament performance ... life; and the attitudes towards kin, death, religion and work that these songs embody. ... Rather, my Helleno-Hibernian coda is an attempt to make connections at a broader ...
Introduction to Cut These Words into My Stone
Cut These Words into My Stone
, 2012
Translations by Michael Wolfe of ancient Greek epitaphs
The Scythian Accent: Anacharsis and the Cynics
The Cynics The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy ( ed. R. Bracht Branham & Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé)
, 1996
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings
A Companion to World Literature, edit. K. Seigneurie et al. Vol. 1.
, 2020
The complex and varied pathways that brought Homeric epic from its beginnings on the coast of Asi...
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The complex and varied pathways that brought Homeric epic from its beginnings on the coast of Asia Minor to worldwide appreciation involved changes of media (oral transmission to papyrus scrolls to handwritten manuscripts to printed texts and ultimately paperbacks and digital editions), empires (Athenian, Roman, Byzantine), continents, and languages. This chapter traces key stages in the journey of Homer from the eighth century bce to the twenty-first century ce, and asks what features of the Iliad and Odyssey may have prepared the poems for globally broad reception.
Homer in a World of Song
The Cambridge Guide to Homer, ed C. Pache
, 2020
The Iliad and Odyssey from their earliest stages coexisted with smaller performative genres, many...
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The Iliad and Odyssey from their earliest stages coexisted with smaller performative genres, many involving music (hymns to humans or gods; tunes to accompany work) or music and dance together, as well as paraliterary “genres of speaking” that had neither musical accompaniment nor strict formal rules. A survey of Homeric allusions to, and embedding of, performance events finds them to be further marked by distantiation and imaginative stylization, thus complicating any mining of epic as an historical source for early song-making traditions.
Hesiodic Theology
The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully
, 2018
The Hesiodic view of the supernatural varies within individual compositions, in tune with oral-tr...
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The Hesiodic view of the supernatural varies within individual compositions, in tune with oral-traditional poetic practice. The flexibility and dramatization inherent in the medium led ancient philosophers to treat Hesiod and Homer as deficient “theology.” Taken as religious fictions, with attention to their diction and devices, the Hesiodic poems are distinct from the Homeric in orientation toward and expressions about the divine world. The Theogony frames itself as a praise poem to Zeus but must downplay the self-interested character of such compositions. Zeus’s sovereignty is depicted in diachronic terms as wisely integrating earlier powers. The Works and Days deals synchronically with the upshot of the world-shaping Prometheus and Pandora complex, projecting onto the mythic level its tale of contemporary fraternal strife and advice for living under a regime of divine justice.
Introduction to H. Monsacré, The Tears of Achilles
H. Monsacré, The Tears of Achilles
, 2018
An overview of scholarship and methods for analyzing thematics of Homeric epic over three decades...
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An overview of scholarship and methods for analyzing thematics of Homeric epic over three decades since the initial French publication.
Achilles without End
Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies in Linguistics and Philology in Honor of Brent Vine.
, 2018
A literary semantic study of Achilles' other name ("Aspetos") in relation to epic diction.
Onomakritos, Rhapsode: Composition-in-Performance and the Competition of Genres in 6th -century Athens
Animo decipiendi? : rethinking fakes and authorship in classical, late antique, & early Christian works
, 2018
Onomakritos—“distinguished for his name”—has become, for us, mostly just a name. What fame he has...
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Onomakritos—“distinguished for his name”—has become, for us, mostly just a name. What fame he has, from the meagre remains that mention this figure from the late sixth century BC , arises from his reputation as a forger—the first to appear in Greek history (if we consign to heroic legend the story of the letter forged at the command of Odysseus in order to frame his nemesis Palamedes). This chapter argues that Onomakritos acted like an archaic Greek rhapsode. It further seeks to explain his interaction with Lasus of Hermione in terms of generic competition within Athens.
Stesichorus and the Name Game
Reception in the Greco-Roman World Literary Studies in Theory and Practice
, 2021
The naming of poetic predecessors within one’s own composition, often associated with a so-called...
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The naming of poetic predecessors within one’s own composition, often associated with a so-called Hellenistic aesthetic, has a less explored heritage going back to the sixth century BCE. This chapter traces the strategy in its earliest phases, especially as we find it within lyric poetry, from the reported statement by Stesichorus [fr. 168 Finglass] that the Shield of Heracles was indeed composed by Hesiod, to the Simonidean allusion to Homer as his forerunner in praise-poetry (fr.11.15–18), and on to Pindar’s complex and varied namings of Archilochus, Terpander, and the masters of hexameter verse.
The Pipes are Brawling
The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture
, 2003
The aulos functioned as an important signifier of class and musical subculture within Athenian so...
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The aulos functioned as an important signifier of class and musical subculture within Athenian society, attached as it was to significant institutions of the democratic polis, in tension with other performance instruments and venues.
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Aristotle cites three main objections to the aulos: psychological effects, impediment to speech, and its association with professional musicians.
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ORAL TRADITION 18.1 - 希腊口头传统的成果
Oral Tradition
, 2003
Chinese version of The Grain of Greek Voices
Upstaged: Irish Drama in Irish
The Princeton University Library Chronicle , Vol. 68, No. 1-2 (Winter 2007), pp. 82-114
, 2007
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Chapter in Richard Hunter, Ian Rutherford (ed.), Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel...
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Chapter in Richard Hunter, Ian Rutherford (ed.), Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 313. ISBN 9780521898782. $99.00.
The rhetoric of rhapsody in Plato's Laws
Chapter in Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (ed.), Performance and Culture in Plato’s Laws. Cambridge; ...
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Chapter in Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (ed.), Performance and Culture in Plato’s Laws. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 460. ISBN 9781107016873. $99.00.
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The contrast between younger and older Plato reflects a shift from idealistic morality to resignation in the Laws.
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Не для красоты:концепция метафоры по О.М. Фрейденберг в античности и современности
Version (in Russian) of Martin, R. "Against Ornament" (English version in Maslov, B. and Kliger, ...
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Version (in Russian) of Martin, R. "Against Ornament" (English version in Maslov, B. and Kliger, I. edit. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics [Fordham UP]
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