Aeolian meter
Aeolian meter measures are verse forms of the ancient metric (verse construction), which are syllable-counting in Aiolic Greek , that is, they have a fixed number of syllables and, as is often the case, one length cannot be split into two abbreviations or two abbreviations merged into one length.
The so-called Aeolian base is typical , which means that any combination of shortness and length is possible for the first two syllables (——, —◡, ◡— or ◡◡). In metric notation , the aeolian base is represented by ○ ○ .
Well-known examples are (abbreviation and number of syllables in brackets):
- Adoneus (ad, 5)
- Alkean verse (alc)
- Archilochius minor (ar, 7)
- Asclepius verse (as)
- Glyconus (gl, 8th)
- Phalacic verse (phal, 11)
- Pherekrateus (pher, 7)
- Priapeus (pr, 15)
- Sapphic verse (sa)
- Wilamowitzianus (wil, 8th)
Aeolian meters were first used in the Sapphic and Alkaean stanzas , in the Roman literature of Catullus , the Elegians, and in the Odes of Horace .
In the past, the Aeolian meters were also called logaedic , as they seemed to occupy a middle position between prose (Greek logos "speech") and verse (Greek aiode "song"). They were thought to be composed of dactyls and troches , for example the 2nd glyconeus
- ◡ ◡ —◡◡ — ◡ ◡
catalectically from a dactylus and three trochaes:
- —◡ˌ — ◡◡ˌ — ◡ˌ—.
literature
- Sandro Boldrini : Prosody and Metrics of the Romans. Teubner, Stuttgart & Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07443-5 , pp. 139-153.
- Willy Borgeaud: Analysis de quelques mètres éoliens. In: L'Antiquité Classique Vol. 26, Fasc. 2, pp. 305-330 (1957).
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). Kröner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-520-47901-X , p. 1.
- Peter Riemer, Michael Weissenberger, Bernhard Zimmermann: Introduction to the study of Greek studies . CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 9783406466298 , p. 95 ff.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 8.