In the embassy's scene (Iliad LX), the poet presents Achilleus with a phorminx in the hand, singing the klea andron in front of his friend Patro- clus : I show here that the scene is far from being insignificant because it not only allows to characterise the hero but also to emphasize the contrast with Odysseus. This becomes obvious when studying carefully the way the poet uses the musical motive in that scene. The presence of the music sketches the figure of Achilleus as an «amateur singer», a unique and unexpected figure in the context of the Iliad : his performance, inscribed in a procedure that can easily be set up, corresponds mutatis mutandis to that of the professionnel aeds we can find in the Odyssey. Interrupting such an aedic perf...
Qui dit spectacle en Grèce ancienne songe immédiatement aux représentations théâtrales, et en partic...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
This close reading of Iliad, I, 1-2 draws on the scholarly approaches to Homeric poetry of Hermann F...
In the embassy's scene (Iliad LX), the poet presents Achilleus with a phorminx in the hand, singing ...
Greek aeds talk loud and clear in the Odyssey and the poet describes their citharas and songs at len...
In book 24 of the Iliad, as the poem ends, the status of its greatest hero, Achilleus, is not yet de...
The origin of lyrical compositions in Classical Greek Literature is often explained by using as init...
In the Homeric epics, gods and men are regularly presented in contact with each other. Far from cons...
The text of Euripides’ Bacchae mentions several times ritual shouts, auloí and d...
When Odysseus and Telemachus finally take their stand against the suitors in Book XXII of the Odysse...
Paradoxical hospitalities: the plays of rites and words in Odyssey V songs III and IV The songs III...
As is well-known, one of the features of epic poetry as a literary genre, is the mention and charact...
On the Iliad as an Artistic Achievement : Poetry and Religion. If one looks at the Iliad in terms of...
The text of Euripides' Bacchae mentions several times ritual shouts, auloí and drums. The theater pl...
International audienceAs a prooimion to an Homeric recitation on an aedic or rhapsodic mode on the o...
Qui dit spectacle en Grèce ancienne songe immédiatement aux représentations théâtrales, et en partic...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
This close reading of Iliad, I, 1-2 draws on the scholarly approaches to Homeric poetry of Hermann F...
In the embassy's scene (Iliad LX), the poet presents Achilleus with a phorminx in the hand, singing ...
Greek aeds talk loud and clear in the Odyssey and the poet describes their citharas and songs at len...
In book 24 of the Iliad, as the poem ends, the status of its greatest hero, Achilleus, is not yet de...
The origin of lyrical compositions in Classical Greek Literature is often explained by using as init...
In the Homeric epics, gods and men are regularly presented in contact with each other. Far from cons...
The text of Euripides’ Bacchae mentions several times ritual shouts, auloí and d...
When Odysseus and Telemachus finally take their stand against the suitors in Book XXII of the Odysse...
Paradoxical hospitalities: the plays of rites and words in Odyssey V songs III and IV The songs III...
As is well-known, one of the features of epic poetry as a literary genre, is the mention and charact...
On the Iliad as an Artistic Achievement : Poetry and Religion. If one looks at the Iliad in terms of...
The text of Euripides' Bacchae mentions several times ritual shouts, auloí and drums. The theater pl...
International audienceAs a prooimion to an Homeric recitation on an aedic or rhapsodic mode on the o...
Qui dit spectacle en Grèce ancienne songe immédiatement aux représentations théâtrales, et en partic...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
This close reading of Iliad, I, 1-2 draws on the scholarly approaches to Homeric poetry of Hermann F...