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Jun 2017
57m 17s

045 Music and Victory Odes

RYAN STITT
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In this episode, we discuss the various types of ancient Greek musical instruments during the Classical Period; how and for what purpose they were used; and the lives and works of the three great 5th century BC lyric poets who pioneered the genre of the epinikion (victory ode)—Simonides of Keos (556-468 BC), Bacchylides of Keos (ca. 525-450 BC), and Pindar of Thebes (522-443 BC), as well as their connections with the lesser known poets Korrina of Tanagra, Lasos of Hermione, and Timokreon of Rhodes

Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/06/045-music-and-victory-odes.html

 

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