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Headword:
Melanippidês
Adler number: mu,454
Translated headword: Melanippides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A maternal grandson of the elder,[1] and son of
Crito, who was also himself a lyric poet. He made many innovations in the composing of dithyrambs and, after spending time with King Perdiccas,[2] he ended his life there. He too wrote lyric songs and dithyrambs.
Melanippidês, thugatridous tou presbuterou, pais de Kritônos, lurikou kai autou: hos en têi tôn dithurambôn melopoiïai ekainotomêse pleista kai diatripsas para Perdikkai tôi basilei ekei ton bion katestrepsen. egrapse kai autos aismata lurika kai dithurambous.
Notes:
This is the dithyramb poet of the second half of the 5th. Century BC (OCD(4) 926 '
Melanippides(2)'), whose career is compared to his grandfather of the same name (
mu 455; OCD loc.cit '
Melanippides(1)). In
Xenophon,
Memorabilia 1.4.3
Aristodemus calls him his favorite dithyramb-poet.
Aristotle,
Rhetoric 1409b, says that he replaced antistrophes with
a)nabolai/ 'preludes'. These were to become a dominant feature (
alpha 1810) of the 'new dithyramb' (
delta 1029,
kappa 2647), and are well illustrated for us in the fragments of
Timotheus'
Persians (Campbell 91-111, fr. 291). He also introduced the 12-stringed cithara (
Pherecrates fr.155 PCG vol. 7). M.L. West (
Ancient Greek Music 357-58) and others regard him as the chief innovator of the "new music" and we have some fragments of his work (Campbell 14-29).
[1] As already noted, 'the elder'
Melanippides is
mu 455 -- an entry which therefore logically ought to have preceded the present one; cf. analogously e.g.
phi 328 and
phi 329.
[2] Perdiccas II of Macedon; ruled ca. 450-413.
Campbell = Greek Lyric, ed. D.A. Campbell, Loeb edn., vol. 5.
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 25 February 2002@10:49:37.
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