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Headword: Amphianaktizein
Adler number: alpha,1701
Translated headword: to sing (dithyrambic) hymns
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to sing the strain of Terpander,[1] the one called High-pitched,[2] which began a prelude of his in this way: "let my heart sing for me to the far-shooting lord." It also occurs in Bed[3] and in Anagyros.[4]
Greek Original:
Amphianaktizein: aidein ton Terpandrou nomon, ton kaloumenon Orthion, ho autôi prooimion tautên tên archên eichen: amphi moi auton anakt' hekatêbolon aoidetô phrên. esti de kai en Eunaiai kai en Anagurôi.
Notes:
See already alpha 1700 and the notes there.
[1] On Terpander see tau 620 and omicron 573.
[2] This far the entry in paralleled in Photius (Lexicon alpha1303 Theodoridis). On the orthios nomos see generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 156-7, 214-7; its distinctiveness lay as much in rhythm as pitch. See also omicron 575, omicron 573, omicron 574, omicron 585, alpha 1122. For the dubious relationship suggested here between dithyrambs and this strain (or rather style: West 214-7, and nu 478) see alpha 1700.
[3] A lost comedy by (?)Cratinus; this is fr. 67 Kock, now 72 K.-A.
[4] A lost comedy by Aristophanes; this is fr. 59 Kock, now 62 K.-A.
Keywords: comedy; definition; meter and music; poetry; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 August 2000@12:00:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 2 March 2001@09:04:43.
Robert Dyer (cross-references for other entries on this style of music and other additions to notes) on 30 May 2002@10:00:45.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 30 May 2002@10:06:49.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics) on 30 September 2005@20:04:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 17 February 2012@06:08:36.
David Whitehead on 22 December 2014@06:32:20.
David Whitehead on 21 June 2015@11:09:17.

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