Ἀναβολάς
overtures
Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Oct 2000Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀναβολάς· τὰ προοίμια. καινὰς ἀναβολὰς θέλω λαβεῖν. ἢ τὰς ἀρχὰς τῶν ᾀσμάτων. Ὅμηρος· ἤτοι ὁ φορμίζων ἀνεβάλλετο καλὸν ἀείδειν. καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης· ξυνελέγοντ' ἀναβολὰς ποτώμεναι. περὶ ψυχῶν λέγων διθυραμβοδιδασκάλων.
Betacode
*)anabola/s: ta\ prooi/mia. kaina\s a)nabola\s qe/lw labei=n. h)\ ta\s a)rxa\s tw=n a)|sma/twn. *(/omhros: h)/toi o( formi/zwn a)neba/lleto kalo\n a)ei/dein. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: cunele/gont' a)nabola\s potw/menai. peri\ yuxw=n le/gwn diqurambodidaska/lwn.
Notes (5)
- The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is the accusative plural of the feminine noun↩
a)nabolh/ . For this sense of it see LSJ s.v., II.1.- 1cf. already alpha 1799. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Birds 1385 (see web address 1). In the "new dithyramb" at the end of the 5th Century BC in Athens (delta 1029, OCD(4) p.978 [in 'Music §4'], and references below) this word refers to stanzas sung by the cyclic choir (kappa 2647) without the responsion of strophe/antistrophe, now judged old-fashioned, to accompany their dance (see Dunbar). As Düring points out (p.185),
a)nabolai/ "stands for the new dithyramb as a whole." The long fragment of Persians of Timotheus (tau 620), edited by Wilamowitz and now by J. Hordern (The Fragments of Timotheus of Miletus, 2002), is then to be regarded as an example. Aristophanes parodies this style in Birds 1373-1409, with examples of strange metre and extraordinary epithets. ↩- 3cf. alpha 2208. ↩
- 4Homer, Odyssey 1.155 (web address 2). ↩
- 5Aristophanes, Peace 830 (web address 3). Aristophanes here attaches to the noun an absurd adjective
endiaerianerinhxe/tous (epsilon 1174).
References
Anderson, W.D. Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (1994) pp.126-34
Barker. = pseudo-Plutarch, De Musica, translated in A. Barker (ed.) Greek Musical Writings I: The Musician and his Art (1984) pp. 204-57, esp. notes, pp.236-40
Dunbar = Aristophanes, Birds, ed. N. Dunbar (1995) pp. 660-73
Düring, I. "Studies in musical terminology in 5th. Century literature," Eranos 43 (1945) 176ff.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, 2nd. Edn. rev. T.B.L. Webster (1962) 38ff.
West, M.L. Ancient Greek Music (1992)
Zimmermann, B. Dithyrambos (Hypomnemata 98, 1992), esp. ch.7 "Der neue Dithyrambos" (117-36)
Barker. = pseudo-Plutarch, De Musica, translated in A. Barker (ed.) Greek Musical Writings I: The Musician and his Art (1984) pp. 204-57, esp. notes, pp.236-40
Dunbar = Aristophanes, Birds, ed. N. Dunbar (1995) pp. 660-73
Düring, I. "Studies in musical terminology in 5th. Century literature," Eranos 43 (1945) 176ff.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, 2nd. Edn. rev. T.B.L. Webster (1962) 38ff.
West, M.L. Ancient Greek Music (1992)
Zimmermann, B. Dithyrambos (Hypomnemata 98, 1992), esp. ch.7 "Der neue Dithyrambos" (117-36)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
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- α2209Ἀνεβάλλετοwas striking up, was starting up[Meaning he/she/it] was making a preamble, was beginning, was starting in, and meaning (?)was excelling. Arrian [writes]: "he was striking up the ravaging of the rest of the territory, thinking the Athenians would give…
- α2657ἈντιγενίδηςAntigenides, AntigenidasSon 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.
- δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors[Dithyramb-directors] talk much about things in the sky and about the clouds, and they used to make up compound words and said endiaeriaierinechetous; such a man was Ion of Chios, the poet. He wrote a poem that began,…
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Revision history11 revisions · last 15 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- tweaked notes — Catharine Roth
- added primary note and another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- updated links — Catharine Roth
- Added italics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added reference to Düring and Timotheus. Raised status — Robert Dyer
- Slightly expanded entry to take into account other entries on the same word, and the modern theories of its meaning (collected by Dunbar). Added bibliography. Slight cosmetics. — Robert Dyer
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- Translated — Jennifer Benedict