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dithyramb::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | written material, piece of writing, speech, writing, address |
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The underwater encounter is also the subject of a Bacchylides dithyramb.
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By Thespis'time the dithyramb had evolved far away from its cult roots.
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For the next 20 minutes Teddy repeated his familiar dithyramb to the Kennedys'longtime political handyman.
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The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger.
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When she looks at her beloved son, Meera launches into soliloquies that are half dithyramb, half goo and suffused with obvious sexual innuendo.
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Under his rule were introduced two new forms of poetry, the dithyramb and tragic drama, and the era also saw growth in theater, arts and sculpture.
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In archaic times, Arion developed the type of poem called dithyramb, the progenitor of tragedy, and Terpander invented the seven note musical scale for the lyre.
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The clearest sense of dithyramb as proto-tragedy comes from a surviving dithyramb by Bacchylides, though it was composed after tragedy had already developed fully.
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After settling in Athens, he probably adapted the dithyramb, customary in his native home, with its chorus of satyrs, to complement the form of tragedy which had been recently invented in Athens.
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- A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
- (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)
- The dithyramb (Ancientu00A0Greek: u03B4u03B9u03B8u03CDu03C1u03B1u03BCu03B2u03BFu03C2, dithurambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god: Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions "the birth of Dionysos, called, I think, the dithyramb...
- A choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus; A poem or oration in the same style
- In classical poetry, a type of melic verse associated with drunken revelry and performed to honor Dionysus (Bacchus), the Greek god of wine. In modern usage, the term has come to mean a poem of impassioned frenzy and irregular character. ...
- Choral hymn in honour of Dionysius, the Greek god of wine, and an influence on the English ode. An example is John Dryden's "Alexander's Feast." Much of the work of Walt Whitman is loosely dithyrambic.
- An ancient Athenian poetic form sung during the Dionysia (see above). The first tragedies may have originated from the dithyrambs. See tragedy.
- Choral hymn that praised Dionysus, god of wine and revelry, and sometimes told a story. In his great work Poetics, Aristotle wrote that dithyrambs inspired the development of Greek tragic plays, such as those of Sophocles. The first "play" supposedly took place in the 6th Century B.C. ...
- Choral song at the Dionysia festival, with the chorus dressed like animals (goats) from which tragedy (Greek for 'song of goats') developed
