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.
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