An Athenian Tradition of Dactylic Paeans to Apollo and Asclepius: Choral Degeneration or a Flexible System of Non-Strophic Dactyls?

The different epigraphic versions of the so-called Erythraean Paean date from the early fourth century BCE to the mid-second century CE and are generally thought to trace the degeneration of an original monostrophic lyric poem attested in the eponymous late-classical version. I argue that such an ap...

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Published in:	Mnemosyne Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 206 - 232
Main Author:	Faraone, C. A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2011
Subjects:	Greek poetry Double dactyls Manners & customs Asklepios (Greek deity) Apollo (Deity) Iambic tetrameter Athens (Greece) Greece
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