Dithyramb in Context
Edited by Barbara Kowalzig and Peter Wilson
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of contributors
List of Illustrations
Conventions and Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The World of Dithyramb, Barbara Kowalzig and Peter Wilson
I Social and Religious Contexts
2. Dancing Dolphins: Dithyramb and Society in the Archaic Period, Barbara Kowalzig
3. Becoming like Dionysos: Dithyramb and Dionysian Initiation, Salvatore Lavecchia
4. Demeter and Dionysos in the Sixth-Century Argolid: Lasos of Hermione, the Cult of Demeter Chthonia and the Origins of Dithyramb, Lucia Prauscello
5. Dithyramb and Greek Tragedy, Luigi Battezzato
II Defining an Elusive Performance Form
6. The Name of the Dithyramb: Diachronic and Diatopic Variations, Giovan Battista D Alessio
7. Athens and the Empire: The Contextual Flexibility of Dithyramb, and its Imperialist Ramifications, David Fearn
8. Cyclic Choroi and the Dithyramb in the Classical and Hellenistic period: a Problem of Definition, Paola Ceccarelli
9. The Semantics of Processional Dithyramb: Pindar s Second Dithyramb and Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting, Guy Hedreen
10. Music and Movement in the Dithyramb, Armand D Angour
III New Music
11. Songbenders of circular choruses : Dithyramb and the Demise of Music, John Curtis Franklin
12. Kyklops Kitharoidos: Dithyramb and Nomos in Play, Timothy Power
13. Satyr-play, dithyramb and the Geopolitics of Dionysian Style in Fifth-Century Athens, Mark Griffith
14. Performance and the Drinking Vessel: Looking for an Imagery of Dithyramb in the Time of the New Music, Alexander Heinemann
IV Towards a Poetics of Dithyramb
15. The Poetics of Dithyramb, Andrew Ford
16. The Dithyramb, a Dionysiac Poetic Form: Genre Rules and Cultic Contexts, Claude Calame
17. Dithyramb in Greek Thought: The Problem of Choral Mimesis, Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
18. One for whom the tribes dispute: The Dithyrambic Poet and the City of Athens, Giorgio Ierano
V Dithyramb in the Roman Empire
19. Choroi and tripods: The Politics of the Choregia in Roman Athens, Julia L. Shear
20. Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus: Dionysiac Discourse at Rome, Ian Rutherford
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Subject Index
