Kinesias

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Kinesias ( Greek  Κινησίας ) from Athens was a Greek dithyram poet in the last quarter of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th century BC. BC, who was also politically active.

Cinesias was the son of Meles, who a little outstanding citharede and supposedly one of the Hermenfrevler was the Hermokopiden, that which was based on confusion with the Hermokopiden Meletus. He came from the Attic Demos Paionidai of the Phyle Leontis . Kinesias was a dithyramb poet and a Cyclodidaskalos ( κυκλιοδιδάσκαλος ), so instructor of the fifty members of a choir in the kyklioi choroi , the round dances performed by the choir. In this capacity, as a teacher, he appears at the beginning of the 4th century BC. To have won a victory in a cyclical agon , since his name appears in an inscription fragment to be interpreted in this way. In addition, he appeared as the composer of a pyrrhich, a dance of arms.

Kinesias was the only dithyramb poet from Athens and a representative of New Music, which was highly controversial at the time. Like his colleagues, he was also violently attacked by the comedy poets , which was reflected in numerous ridicules by Aristophanes and other poets of the old comedy such as the comedian Plato . Strattis dedicated a piece of his own to him, Kinesias, and in Cheiron , a comedy of indefinite period which may be attributed to Pherekrates , he is accused of changing the key within the stanzas and the personified music complains that he has ruined it. In addition, as a representative of New Music, he has incorporated stanza-free rhythmic motifs, so-called anabolai, into his music, an innovation that Melanippides first introduced into the music of the dithyrambus. The philosopher Plato criticized the moralizing attitude of his texts. No verse has survived from his poetry, although he was considered the most important Attic poet. The title is known only from one dithyrambus: Asklepios ( Ἀσκληπιός ), possibly with the introduction of the Asklepios cult as the Athenian state cult in 420 BC. To connect.

Around 400 BC Kinesias appeared as an active politician and Buleutes when he asked to limit the expenses for the comic choral parts. This may have been the reason for Strattis to call him a "choir murderer" ( χοροκτόνος ). In the year 394/393 BC Kinesias supported Androsthenes' request to honor the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse and some relatives after the victory over the Carthaginians . Kinesias was one of the prosecutors in two trials and was accused by Lysias of the Asebie and the membership in the association of the Kakodaimonistai ( κακοδαιμονισταί , "follower of the evil daimon").

According to Lysias, it was the asebie for whom the gods punished Kinesias with physical suffering. His contemporaries regarded him as gaunt, consumptive and sick with skin, flabby and with abnormal legs, in a terrible physical condition, a living corpse.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Plato , Gorgias 502a; Pherekrates calls him in the Agrioi ( PCG 7, Frg. 6), however, the worst possible kitharoden: κιθαρῳδὸς κάκιστος .
  2. ↑ Scholion to Aristophanes , The Birds 766.
  3. ↑ On this cf. Andokides 1:12, 13, 35, 63; Konrad Kinzl : Meletos 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1173.
  4. ↑ Aristophanes, Lysistrata 852.
  5. ↑ Aristophanes, The Birds 1388; Plutarch , De gloria Atheniensium 5.1 (= Moralia 348 b); Harpocration sv Κινησίας ; Suda , keyword Κινησίας , Adler number: kappa 1639 , Suda-Online ; as μελοποιός (poet of choral songs ) characterized by Philodemos , peri eusebeias 52, Plutarch, De superstitione 10.1 (= Moralia 170a).
  6. ↑ Aristophanes, The Birds 1403.
  7. ↑ IG II² 3028 .
  8. ↑ Aristophanes, The Frogs 152 f.
  9. ↑ Pherekrates Fragment 155 in PCG 7.
  10. ↑ Aristophanes, The Birds 1383–1385.
  11. ^ Plato, Gorgias 502 a.
  12. ↑ Philodemos, peri eusebeias 52nd
  13. ^ Wilhelm Schmid: The classical period of Greek literature . Second edition. CH Beck, Munich 1980, p. 497 Note 1.
  14. ↑ Scholion zu Aristophanes, Die Vögel 153, 404; whether this request was followed is unknown.
  15. ↑ Strattis fragment 16 in PCG 7; Heinz-Günther Nesselrath : The Attic medium comedy. Your position in ancient literary criticism and literary history (= studies on ancient literature and history. Volume 36). Berlin / New York 1990, p. 249 f. Note 21, however, traces the term “choir killer” back to the demands that Kinesias demanded of a choir with its music.
  16. ↑ IG II² 18 .
  17. ↑ Lysias, Reden 21, 20 with the fragment from Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 551D.
personal data
SURNAME Kinesias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κινησίας (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek dithyramb poet
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.