Research Catalog

Title

The culture of kitharôidia / Timothy Power.

Author

Power, Timothy, 1979-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xiv, 638 p. : plates; 23 cm.

Summary

• Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodes enjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at festival competitions and concerts throughout the Mediterranean world.
• "The Culture of Kitharoidia" is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination, from mythical citharodes such as Orpheus to the controversial innovator Timotheus, to that most notorious of musical dilettantes, Nero.

Series Statement

Hellenic studies ; 15

Uniform Title

Hellenic studies ; 15.

Subjects

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Antiken
• To 323
• Musicians > Greece
• Music > Social aspects > Greece > History > 146 B.C.-323 A.D
• Music > Social aspects > Greece > History > To 146 B.C
• Terpander
• Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68
• Songs with cithara > History and criticism
• Music, Greek and Roman > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Princeps Citharoedus -- Section 1 Setting the Scene: A Citharode in Naples -- Section 2 Emperor-Citharode and Other Pretenders -- Section 3 Showing Off: Citharodic Glamour and the Economics of Visual Display -- Section 4 Apollonian Assimilations and Orphic Icons -- Section 5 Commemorating Citharodes -- Section 6 Erotic Audition -- Section 7 Juvenal on Citharodic Fandom in Rome -- Section 8 Women in Kitharoidia? -- Section 9 Going Professional -- Section 10 Popular Music and its (Greek) Discontents -- Section 11 Nero Citharoedus in Rome -- Section 12 "Bad" Citharodes, Tough Crowds -- Section 13 Factional Dramas -- Section 14 Theatrokratia, Fantasy and Reality -- Section 15 Twin Delight: Aesthetics and Techniques of Kitharoidia -- Section 16 Picking and Plucking -- Section 17 Performative Body: Marching and Mimesis -- Section 18 Athletic Citharode -- Section 19 Neronian Citharodic Politics -- Section 20 Augustan Antecedents -- Section 21 Evolving Models of Patronage -- Section 22 Nero's Catastrophic Kitharoidia -- pt. II Anabole, Prooimion, Nomos: Form and Content of Citharodic Songs -- Section 1 Prelude/Anabole -- Section 2 Prooimion: Necessary Introductions -- Section 3 Hymnic and Choral Origins of Kitharoidia -- Section 4 Rule of Nomos: What's in a Name? -- Section 5 What's in a (Terpandrean) Nomos? -- Section 6 Stesichorus and the Citharodes -- Section 7 Terpander's Homer -- Section 8 Rhapsodes Versus Citharodes -- Section 9 Terpander and "Other Poets" -- Section 10 Argonautica Citharoedica -- Section 11 Heracles Kitharoidos -- Section 12 Heracleia and Hesiodica -- Section 13 Theseus in Kitharoidia? -- Section 14 Summary of Sections 5-13 -- Section 15 Pollux on Nomic Form -- pt. III Inventions of Terpander -- Section 1 Terpander between Myth and History -- Section 2 Terpander in Gaza -- Section 3 Contested Legacies -- Section 4 Citharodes' Citharode -- Section 5 Timotheus' Terpander -- Section 6 Simonidean Intermezzo -- Section 7 Terpander's Orpheus -- Section 8 Orpheus in Citharodic Performance? -- Section 9 Singer's Name -- Section 10 Terpander in and out of Delphi -- Section 11 Kitharoidia on Lesbos -- Section 12 Megaclo's Moisai -- Section 13 Terpander in Sparta -- Section 14 Music, Blood, and Cult -- Section 15 Pindar's Terpander -- pt. IV Panathenaic Kitharoidia -- Section 1 Kitharoidia Comes to Athens -- Section 2 Citharodic Geopolitics -- Section 3 Late-Classical Interlude -- Section 4 Apollo Patroos: Ideological Resonances in Athens -- Section 5 Brilliant Spectators -- Section 6 Lyric Politics in the Hymn to Hermes -- Section 7 Aristocratic Agonists -- Section 8 Tyrannical Leitmotifs in Democratic Athens -- Section 9 Dionysian Deformations: The New Nomos -- Section 10 Comic Critique and Popular Ambivalence -- Section 11 Legitimating the Nomos: Timotheus' Persians in Athens -- Section 12 Timotheus the Classic.

ISBN

• 9780674021389 (alk. paper)
• 067402138X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010026469

OCLC

• 658807564
• SCSB-10660962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library