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Headword: Antigenidês
Adler number: alpha,2657
Translated headword: Antigenides, Antigenidas
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Son of Satyros, Theban, musician, pipe-singer of Philoxenos. This man was the first to use Milesian shoes and he wore a yellow cloak in the Reveller. He wrote lyric poems.
Greek Original:
Antigenidês, Saturou, Thêbaios, mousikos, aulôidos Philoxenou. houtos hupodêmasi Milêsiois prôtos echrêsato kai krokôton en tôi Kômastêi perieballeto himation. egrapse melê.
Notes:
The name is Antigenides here but more authentically (given his city of origin) Antigenidas in Harpokration s.v., commenting on his mention in Lysias fr. 189 Sauppe (now 242 Carey OCT). The present entry follows the one in Hesychius of Miletus; that of Harpok. belongs in a different tradition (where for instance A's father's name is Dionysios).
"His activity seems to fall in the first third of the fourth century [BC], though some anecdotes place him in settings that lie well outside this span. [...] He is called the aulode -- no doubt a mistake for "aulete" -- of Philoxenos [the dithyrambist Ph. of Kythera, c.435-c.380 BC: see phi 393]; perhaps it was he [= Antigenidas] who had to accompany the chorus through the modulatory labyrinth of the Mysians. The same source records that he was the first to wear Milesian shoes, and that in the Reveller (another work of Philoxenus?) he wore a yellow cloak" (M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 367).
For further notes and bibliography on Philoxenos and the "new dithyramb" see delta 1029, kappa 2647, alpha 1810, sigma 1192.
References:
OCD(4) pp.469 (s.v. dithyramb) and 978 (s.v. music).
RE2 vol.1.2400-1
Anderson, W.D. Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (1994) 126-34
Barker = pseudo-Plutarch, De Musica, translated in Andrew Barker (ed.) Greek Musical Writings I: The Musician and his Art (1984) 204-57, esp. notes, pp.236-40
Schlesinger, K. The Greek Aulos (1970) 106
Keywords: biography; chronology; clothing; geography; meter and music; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 May 2001@15:09:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note) on 14 May 2001@03:27:24.
Robert Dyer (Added sentence to notes, bibliography, cosmetics.) on 8 January 2002@09:33:43.
Robert Dyer (Added two references) on 8 January 2002@09:38:57.
David Whitehead (added primary note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 July 2011@09:08:28.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 18 March 2012@08:20:37.
David Whitehead (updated refs) on 30 July 2014@06:51:25.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 15 December 2014@15:32:23.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 16 December 2014@02:53:43.

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