Komos
As Komos ( ancient Greek κῶμος KOMOS , festive, cheerful parade especially in honor of Dionysus ') is a rollicking, ritualized procession accompanied by music in ancient Greece called. Musical accompanying instruments were the kithara and / or especially the aulos .
Early mentions of the term describe a rite with song, dance and music, which, however, has not yet been associated with Dionysus. There were such events independently of this until the Roman Empire , but at the latest since the 6th century BC. The Komos is mostly associated with the god. The Greek vase painting in particular often and almost always depicts such scenes in connection with Dionysus. In the course of time, the Komos became an increasingly integral part of the urban Dionysia .
In antiquity , comedy was erroneously derived from comos, which Aristotle already denied in his poetics .
A personification of the same name of Komos has existed since late antiquity .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag Verlag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965.