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Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodes enjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at festival competitions and concerts throughout the Mediterranean world. The Culture of Kitharoidia is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination, from mythical citharodes such as Orpheus to the controversial innovator Timotheus, to that most notorious of musical dilettantes, Nero.

Author Biography:

Timothy Power is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Rutgers University.
Release date Australia
January 1st, 2011
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
5 black and white halftones, 5 line drawings
Pages
652
Dimensions
154x229x35
ISBN-13
9780674021389
Product ID
2548629

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