AHCL 2301H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cithara, Aulos, Citharede

• School: Trent University
• Department: Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
• Course: AHCL 2301H
• Professor: George Kovacs

Document Summary

Metre: pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables tend to be explicit. Poetics: art form, describes mechanics of patterns in poems i. e. (cid:524) (cid:498)) don"t know but )"ve been told (cid:499) poem/chant: expected to be spoken at volume, maintain cadence, maintain military values, expected repetition. Iambic (iambos): pattern of short then long syllables. Archaic period: demeter; fertility and ritual content: of abuse and graphic scenes i. e. ) Elegy (elegiac): epic poetry, spoken in private, i. e. ) 5 (cid:523)long, short short etc. (cid:524) (cid:523)1(cid:889)(cid:890)(cid:887)(cid:524) (cid:498)wee, sleekit, cow"rin, tim"rous beastie (cid:499) by robbie burns, 1(cid:890)(cid:887)(cid:891)-1796. Vowel replacement: (cid:498)away so hastie(cid:499) changed to (cid:498)awa sae hastie(cid:499) to imitate. Makes sense to the english ear (if spoken aloud) Doric: crete, rhodes, sparta, etc. (lyric poetry) Attic: independent but of athens (tragedy, comedy, philosophers, 2nd. Ionic (related to attic): due to aggressive colonization (achilochus) sophistic etc. ) Epic: purely literary (never spoken) (homer and hesiod) Variable poetry; no single genre except (cid:498)epic(cid:499) poetry.