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Headword: Partheneia
Adler number: pi,661
Translated headword: partheneia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[When spoken] with the circumflex on the penult, [this means] songs being sung for virgins. Aristophanes [writes]: "many fine dithyrambs and partheneia and Simonidean [elegies]." That is, evilly-artful and intricate.
Greek Original:
Partheneia: properispômenôs, ta eis parthenous aidomena melê. Aristophanês: kuklia te polla kai kala kai partheneia kai kata Simônidou. toutesti kakotechna kai poikila.
Note:
Aristophanes, Birds 918-19, with comment from the scholia there; cf. kappa 2645, sigma 440.
Reference:
Claude Calame, Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Functions, translated from the French by Derek Collins and Jane Orion. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xii + 282. $24.95. ISBN 0-8226-3063-X (pb). For the BMCR review of this book see web address 1 below.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; meter and music; poetry; women
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 24 November 2002@17:58:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords) on 25 November 2002@03:38:22.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 16 September 2013@08:19:51.
David Whitehead (modified tr) on 20 June 2016@03:40:10.
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