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