- of
travellers in general,
implying that
rhapsodes were
itinerant performers,
moving from town to town.
Rhapsodes originated in Ionia,
which has been sometimes...
- the
titular character, a
professional rhapsode who also
lectures on Homer, the
question of
whether the
rhapsode, a
performer of poetry,
gives his performance...
- Mesopotamia.
While it
seems to have been
common in Homer's day
accompanying the
rhapsodes, it was
supplanted in
historical times by the seven-stringed kithara....
-
poems down, or
dictated them,
rather than p****ing them on orally, as
rhapsodes did—otherwise: the
pronounced personality that now
emerges from the poems...
- the poet(s) of the
Iliad and
Odyssey would have
considered themselves rhapsodes (it has been
argued by
Walter Burkert, and is
accepted by some recent...
-
other Indo-European societies, the same
function was
fulfilled by skalds,
rhapsodes,
minstrels and scops,
among others. A
hereditary caste of professional...
-
Institute De
Agostini of Novara". The
guidebook includes a
study of the
rhapsodes of
Albanian mountains by
Nicola Lo
Russo Attoma and
contains 118 pages...
-
certain other Latin American genres, such as the
Chilean run-run and the
rhapsodes of the
Argentine payadores. González, Raúl
Eduardo (July–December 2001)...
- tradition. The poem was
performed by
professional reciters of
Homer known as
rhapsodes.
Critical themes in the poem
include kleos (glory), pride, fate and wrath...
-
maintained the
tradition of
singing his poems, but
afterwards was
applied to
rhapsodes who did not
claim literal descent from him. One
famous member, Cynaethus...
