Partheneion

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Kithara player and female listener, Two Muses at the Helikon . Attic white-ground lekythos , 440-430 BC BC, Greek vase painting by the Achilles painter

The Partheneion (from Greek  παρθένειον partheneion "virgin song ", to παρθένος parthenos "virgin") is a form of the ancient choir song . It was sung as a half religious, half secular hymn by a girls' choir and was particularly popular in Sparta ; to it it was of instrumental play such. B. with the kithara , and dance accompanied and was less solemn than other genres such. B. the Paian .

Only a few fragments have survived, such as the conclusion of a Partheneion from Alkman , which was probably a processional song for the goddess Artemis , and fragments from Pindar's no longer preserved Partheneia and its appendix; they contain verses about immortality, about Daphne and Pan in choriambischem measure . Parthenia of Bakchylides and Semonides are mentioned in other works, but have also not survived.

In a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt, a papyrus of such a virgin song with 101 verses was found in 1855 , which is now in the collections of the Louvre . It was not until 105 years later that fragments of comparable papyri from the ancient Egyptian Oxyrhynchos were discovered in the collection of the British Museum .

literature

  • W. Barnstone: Greek Lyric Poetry . Schocken Press, New York 1972, pp. 47-49.
  • Cecil Maurice Bowra : The Occasion of Alcman's Partheneion . In: The Classical Quarterly . 28, No. 1, 1934, pp. 35-44.
  • Claude Calame : Les chœurs des jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque , Vol. 1–2 (Filologia e critica 20-21). Rome, Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1977. Engl. Transl. (Only vol. 1): Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece . Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 1997, rev. 2001. ISBN 0-7425-1524-9 .
  • Hermann Diels : Alkman's Partheneion . In: Hermes . 31, No. 2, 1896, pp. 339-374 ( online ).
  • George Hinge: The language of Alkman: Text history and language history (= Serta Graeca. 24). Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-89500-492-8 ( summary ).
  • Vinko Hinze: To the Louvre-Partheneion Alkmans (PMGF 1) . In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 99, 1993, pp. 15-16 ( PDF online ).
  • James T. Hooker : The Unity of Alcman's Partheneion . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . 122, 1979, pp. 211-221 ( PDF online ).
  • AM Miller: Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis 1996, pp. 31-37.
  • Carlo Odo Pavese: Il grande partenio di Alcmane (= Lexis. Supplemento 1). Amsterdam, Adolf M. Hakkert 1992. ISBN 90-256-1033-1 .
  • Mario Puelma : The self-description of the choir in Alkman's large Partheneion fragment. In: Museum Helveticum . 34 (1977) pp. 1-55 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-27080 ).
  • Ernst Risch : The language of Alkman. In: Museum Helveticum 11 (1954) pp. 20–37 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-12465 ). Reprinted in this: Kleine Schriften. 1981, pp. 314-331.
  • F. Schwenn: On Alkman's large Partheneion fragment . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 86, 1937, pp. 289-315 ( PDF online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Lavagnini : Aglaia: Nuova Antologia della Lirica Greca da Callino a Bacchilide . Turin 1964.