Introduction : the world of Dithyramb / Barbara Kowalzig, I. Social and religious contexts :Dancing dolphins on the wine-dark sea : Dithyramb and social change in the archaic Mediterranean / Barbara Kowalzig Becoming like Dionysos : Dithyramb and Dionysian intitiation / Salvatore Lavecchia Demeter and Dionysos in the sixth-century Argolid : Lasos of Hermione, the cult of Demeter Chthonia, and the origins of Dithyramb / Lucia Prauscello Dithyramb and Greek tragedy / Luigi Battezzato II. Defining an elusive performance form : 'Thename of the Dithyramb' : diachronic and diatopic variations / Giambattista D'Alessio Athens and the empire : the contextual flexibility of Dithyramb, and its imperialist ramifications / David Fearn Circular choruses and the Dithyramb in the classical and Hellenistic period : a problem of definition / Paola Ceccarelli Thesemantics of processional Dithyramb : Pindar's Second Dithyramb and archaic Athenian vase-painting / Guy Hedreen Music and movement in the Dithyramb / Armand D'Angour III. New music :'Songbenders of circular choruses' : Dithyramb and the 'demise of music' / John Curtis Franklin Kyklops Kitharoidos : Dithyramb and Nomos in play / Timothy Power Satyr-play, Dithyramb, and the geopolitics of Dionysian style in fifth-century Athens / Mark Griffith Performance and the drinking vessel : looking for an imagery of Dithyramb in the time of the 'new music' / Alexander Heinemann IV. Towards a poetics of Dithyramb : Thepoetics of Dithyramb / Andrew Ford TheDithyramb, a Dionysiac poetic form : genre rules and cultic contexts / Claude Calame Dithyramb in Greek thought : the problem of choral mimesis / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi 'One who is fought over by all the tribes' : the Dithyrambic poet and the city of Athens / Giorgio Ieranò V. Dithyramb in the Roman Empire :Choruses and tripods : the politics of the Choregia in Roman Athens / Julia L. Shear Dithyrambos, Thriambos, Triumphus : Dionysiac discourse at Rome / Ian Rutherford. |
