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Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above. The dithyramb (/ ˈ d ɪ θ ɪ r æ m /; [1] Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god. [2]
A few details of Philoxenus' life are known. [4] According to the Suda, Philoxenus was the son of Eulytides, from Cythera.On the conquest of the island by the Athenians, Philoxenus was taken as a slave to Athens, where he came into the possession of the dithyrambic poet Melanippides, who educated him.
Dionysian Dithyrambs (German: Dionysos-Dithyramben), also called Dionysus-Dithyrambs, is a collection of nine poems written in second half of 1888 by Friedrich Nietzsche under the pen name of Dionysos.
Arion is often called the inventor of the dithyrambic poetry, and of the name dithyramb. As Arthur Wallace writes: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth," [ 2 ] His fame was established in antiquity, and Herodotus says "Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first ...
His high reputation as a poet is intimated by Xenophon, who makes Aristodemus give him first place among dithyrambic poets, alongside Homer, Sophocles, Polykleitos and Zeuxis, as the chief masters in their respective arts, [1] and by Plutarch, who mentions him, with Simonides and Euripides, as among the most distinguished masters of music. [2]
Enough of his dithyrambic poetry survives for comparison with that of Bacchylides, who used it for narrative. Pindar's dithyrambs are an exuberant display of religious feeling, capturing the wild spirit of Dionysus and pointing forward to the ecstatic songs of Euripides' Bacchae. In one of these, dedicated to the Athenians and written to be ...
Little of Praxilla's work survives – five fragments in her own words, and three paraphrases by other authors. [5] The longest surviving fragment is three lines. [6] These vary in style: two are skolia (drinking songs), one is in the metre named the Praxilleion after her, [b] one is a hymn to Adonis, and one is a dithyramb. [8]
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