Nuove volute di versi

Poesia e musica nella commedia greca di V e IV sec. a.C.

edited by Bernhard Zimmermann and Antonietta Gostoli

Book cover: Nuove volute di versi

Extent: 311 pages

Publisher: Verlag-Antike

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Studia Comica

Series volume number: 14

Language: Italian

Hardback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9783949189302

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $110.00

In stock

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of “art of the Muses”. The volume offers an investigation on the metres and rhythms of poetic texts, on dance, on sociological aspects, on the psychagogical function of music itself, on the perceptions and theories that are transmitted to us from ancient sources. In the various essays a central role is played by Aristophanes, playwright and an expert music critic, animated by a negative prejudice towards the ‘New Music’, the poetic-musical revolution that influenced the dithyramb and the nomos, and then also the lyric sections of the tragedy.


The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of “art of the Muses”. The volume offers an investigation on the metres and rhythms of poetic texts, on dance, on sociological aspects, on the psychagogical function of music itself, on the perceptions and theories that are transmitted to us from ancient sources. In the various essays a central role is played by Aristophanes, playwright and an expert music critic, animated by a negative prejudice towards the ‘New Music’, the poetic-musical revolution that influenced the dithyramb and the nomos, and then also the lyric sections of the tragedy.

  • Edited by Antonietta Gostoli
  • Edited by Bernhard Zimmermann