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- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Glossary of Musical Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Topic and the Sources
- Chapter 1 Sympotic Scenes and Songs
- Chapter 2 The Gentleman’s Lyre
- Chapter 3 Hellenistic Evolutions
- Chapter 4 Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets
- Chapter 5 Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age
- Chapter 6 Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes
- Chapter 7 Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People
- Chapter 8 Music at Christian Social Meals
- Chapter 9 Purposes and Pleasures
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Chapter 1 - Sympotic Scenes and Songs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Glossary of Musical Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Topic and the Sources
- Chapter 1 Sympotic Scenes and Songs
- Chapter 2 The Gentleman’s Lyre
- Chapter 3 Hellenistic Evolutions
- Chapter 4 Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets
- Chapter 5 Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age
- Chapter 6 Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes
- Chapter 7 Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People
- Chapter 8 Music at Christian Social Meals
- Chapter 9 Purposes and Pleasures
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Summary
This chapter describes the music performed by upper-class diners at archaic/classical symposia as documented by literary evidence and red-figure pottery. Following a discussion of the rise of the aristocratic symposion and shifts in musical entertainment from the picture given in Homer to the period when upper-class men began singing a repertoire of elite poetry at drinking parties, the following topics are taken up: the group libation paean, scolia, elegiac verse and its performance mode, other types of sung poetry, and dance. The aim is to identify the musical rituals as precisely as possible. This prepares for a discussion in Chapter 2 of the social function of aristocratic lyrody at symposia and its historical development.
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- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman AntiquityFrom the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, pp. 23 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022