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  2. Seikilos epitaph - Wikipedia

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    A Hellenistic Ionic song, it is either in the Phrygian octave species or Ionian (Iastian) tonos. The melody of the song is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in ancient Greek musical notation . While older music with notation exists (e.g. the Hurrian songs or the Delphic Hymns ), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it ...

  3. Music of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Hyporchema was a dance-song with a marked rhythmic movement, commonly associated with the paean, and often difficult to distinguish from it. For example, the First Delphic Hymn is titled "Paean or Hyporchema". [8]: 88 Dithyrambs; Usually merrily sung in celebration at festivals, performed especially in dedication to Dionysus, the god of wine.

  4. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus appealed to the Hellenistic monarchies for a number of reasons, apart from merely being a god of pleasure: He was a human who became divine, he came from, and had conquered, the East, exemplified a lifestyle of display and magnificence with his mortal followers, and was often regarded as an ancestor. [319]

  5. Artists of Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    The Artists of Dionysus or Dionysiac Artists (Ancient Greek: οἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνιταί, romanized: hoi peri ton Dionuson technitai) were an association of actors and other performers who coordinated the organisation of Greek theatrical and musical performances in the Hellenistic Period and under the Roman Empire.

  6. Dionysia - Wikipedia

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    A Hellenistic Greek mosaic depicting the god Dionysos as a winged ... was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, ... (which means "goat-song").

  7. Philoxenus of Cythera - Wikipedia

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    So the character of the Cyclops, in this interpretation, would not represent Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, but perhaps instead the cithara-playing poet Timotheus. [26] The romantic element, originated by Philoxenus, was revived by Hellenistic poets that were to follow, including: Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax, and Bion of Smyrna. [27]

  8. Homeric Hymns - Wikipedia

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    The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [a] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult.

  9. Thriambus - Wikipedia

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    A thriambus (also spelled thriamb, thriambas, or thriambos; Greek θρίαμβος) is a hymn to Dionysus, sung in processions in his honour, and at the same time an epithet of the god himself, according to Diodorus (4.5.2):