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Headword: *qe/spis
Adler number: theta,283
Translated headword: Thespis
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A name of a citharode.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: 'he never stops dancing all night those old dances with which Thespis competed.'[2]
Greek Original:
*qe/spis: o)/noma kiqarw|dou=. *)aristofa/nhs: o)rxou/menos th=s nukto\s ou)de\n pau/etai ta)rxai=' e)kei=n', oi(=s *qe/spis h)gwni/zeto.
Notes:
[1] A player of the kithara, or box-lyre; see kappa 1590, and generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (O.U.P., 1992) 48-56. But in fact Aristophanes (next note) is referring to the celebrated tragedian Thespis (theta 282), not to a homonymous citharode. See MacDowell [below] 322.
[2] Aristophanes, Wasps 1478-1479 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Wasps, edited with introduction and commentary by Douglas M. MacDowell, O.U.P., 1971
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; daily life; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 16 April 2001@18:38:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 22 April 2001@06:50:52.
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