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The Culture of Kitharoidia

TitleThe Culture of Kitharoidia
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsPower, T
Series TitleHellenic Studies Series 15
Number of Pages230 pp.
PublisherHarvard University Press
CityCambridge, Mass.
Abstract

Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodes enjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at festival competitions and concerts throughout the Mediterranean world.
The Culture of Kitharoidia is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination, from mythical citharodes such as Orpheus to the controversial innovator Timotheus, to that most notorious of musical dilettantes, Nero. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=28607]

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