How the dithyramb got its shape
Extract: Pindar's Dithyramb opens with a reference to the historical development of the genre it exemplifies, the celebrated circular chorus of classical Greece. The first two lines were long known from various citations, notably in Athenaeus, whose sources included the fourth-century authors H...
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Cambridge University Press
1997
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