2019
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838820000075
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Sung Poems and Poetic Songs: Hellenistic Definitions of Poetry, Music and the Spaces in Between

Abstract: Simply by formulating a question about the nature of ancient Greek poetry or music, any modern English speaker is already risking anachronism. In recent years especially, scholars have reminded one another that the words ‘music’ and ‘poetry’ denote concepts with no easy counterpart in Greek. μουσική in its broadest sense evokes not only innumerable kinds of structured movement and sound but also the political, psychological and cosmic order of which song, verse and dance are supposed to be perceptible manifest… Show more

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