The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-f31be1623d544245b1c6e6fc2b582f8c2022-12-21T17:25:15ZengSociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (SBEC)Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos0103-43162176-64362018-12-01312314310.24277/classica.v31i2.739640The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters CatalecticEwen Bowie0Corpus Christi College, Oxford.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.https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/739ArchilochusauloscremationelegyepitaphiosinscriptionmilitaryParosrhapsodiaSolontetrameterThasostrochaic. |
| spellingShingle | Ewen Bowie The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos Archilochus aulos cremation elegy epitaphios inscription military Paros rhapsodia Solon tetrameter Thasos trochaic. |
| title | The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic |
| title_full | The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic |
| title_fullStr | The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic |
| title_short | The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic |
| title_sort | performance contexts of trochaic tetrameters catalectic |
| topic | Archilochus aulos cremation elegy epitaphios inscription military Paros rhapsodia Solon tetrameter Thasos trochaic. |
| url | https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/739 |
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