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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Main Author: Ewen Bowie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (SBEC) 2018-12-01
Series:Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos
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Online Access:https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/739