- A
rhapsode (Gr****: ῥαψῳδός, "rhapsōidos") or, in
modern usage, rhapsodist,
refers to a
classical Gr****
professional performer of epic
poetry in the fifth...
- the
titular character, a
professional rhapsode who also
lectures on Homer, the
question of
whether the
rhapsode, a
performer of poetry,
gives his performance...
- and
modern scholars to
infer that he was not a
professionally trained rhapsode or he
would have been
presented with a lyre instead. Some
scholars have...
-
reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of
Athens envisaged Tithonus as a
rhapsode, as
attested by the lyre in his hand, on an
oinochoe (wine jug) of the...
-
widespread illiteracy, the poem was
performed for an
audience by an
aoidos or
rhapsode. Key
themes in the epic
include the
ideas of
nostos (νόστος; 'return',...
- "pipe, aulos." The
neologism aulode is
sometimes used by
analogy with
rhapsode and
citharode (citharede) to
refer to an aulos-player, who may also be...
- to Zeus ... A "singer of
stitched words" is a
literal definition of a
rhapsode.
Later contemporary references come in fourth-century texts, in the works...
-
Talmadge as The
Mountain Girl (second role in film)
Elmer Clifton as The
Rhapsode, a warrior-singer
Alfred Paget as
Prince Belshazzar Seena Owen as The Princess...
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tradition to
which the
Iliad and
Odyssey are
believed to
belong (compare
rhapsode). In
classical Gr****, the word
aoidos 'singer', is an
agent noun derived...
- tradition. The poem was
performed by
professional reciters of
Homer known as
rhapsodes at Gr****
festivals such as the Panathenaia.
Critical themes in the poem...
