Egert Pöhlmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1491832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Egert Pöhlmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Egert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pöhlmann |
| SIGNATURE | PÖHLMANN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods: Mesomedes, Proems - Hymns - Prayers
Between 100 and 160 AD, Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, wrote several short lyric poems. This volume presents six of these texts, namely addresses, hymns and prayers to gods, Greek traditional divinities and »new« gods. Apart from a new edition of the Greek text, it also contains a fresh, annotated translation into English and Italian. Furthermore, the contributors provide essays offering diverse perspectives on …
Menander, Theophorumenē: A Song to Kybele on the Comic Stage
While Old Comedy abounds in musical parts, New Comedy restricts music to four act-dividing songs, about which in the papyri nothing but remarks like χοροῦ are transmitted. Monodies sung by actors are extremely rare. In Menander there are only two examples, a monody of a priestess in the Leukadia and a song to Kybele in the Theophoroumenē , transmitted in nine book fragments, three fragments on papyri and five mosaics depicting scenes connected wi…
Vitruvius De Architectura V: Resounding Vessels in the Greek and Roman Theatre and Their Possible Afterlife in Eastern and Western Churches
In Book 5 of De architectura , the main subjects of Vitruvius are the Roman and Greek theatre and their acoustic qualities, explained with the help of several Greek theories. Vitruvius tries to enhance them by introducing a system of assisted resonance. Following the Harmonics of Aristoxenus, he recommends equipping theatre buildings with ἠχεῖα of bronze or earthenware, with the aim of increasing the strength of the voices of actors. Archaeologic…
The Hymn of Mesomedes on Antinous (Inscription of Courion, Mitford No. 104)
The citharode Mesomedes of Crete was one of the poets at the court of Hadrian. In late antiquity a selection of his poetry was assembled, and this corpus survived in transmission until medieval times, partly with musical notation. But of course the oeuvre of Mesomedes was much greater, as we see from two poems transmitted by the Greek Anthology and a lost encomium on Antinous, Hadrian’s paidika , as the Suda informs us. In his publication of the …
The Delphic Paeans of Athenaios and Limenios between Old and New Music
Currently, there are only 64 extant fragments of ancient Greek music, of which the bulk belongs to imperial times. Thus, the musical evidence for ‘New Music’, which had its climax in the second half of the 5th century, is limited. Nevertheless, one important observation is possible: fragments from classical times, which belong to antistrophic compositions, use melodies which do not mirror the prosody of the texts and simply repeat the melody of t…
The Monody of the Hoopoe in Aristophanes’
Animal choruses are familiar in ancient Greek comedy. Besides Aristophanes, there are 13 examples of them. Vase paintings provide evidence from the beginnings of Old Comedy. They had to sing the traditional melic parts of the agon and the parabasis. Aristophanes used the comic animal chorus in Knights (424 bc ), Wasps (422), Birds (414), Frogs (405) and Storks (395-387). Moreover, with the song of the Hoopoe in the Birds 227-62, Aristophanes pres…
Excavation, Dating and Content of Two Tombs in Daphne, Odos Olgas 53, Athens
On 13. and 14. May 1981, in the course of emergency excavations in Odos Olgas 53 in Daphne, Athens, two tombs were excavated, the second of which was heralded as the Tomb of the Musician by the press. The contents were transferred to the National Archaeological Museum and later, after restoration, to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. In Tomb I there were found the bones of an adult person in his or her 40s, together with four lekythoi, which …
Multispectral documentation and image processing analysis of the papyrus of tomb II at Daphne, Greece
Present Past. Selected Papers: Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften
Egert Pöhlmann held the Chair of Classical Studies at the University of Erlangen until 2001. His minor writings collected here cover the period from 1968 to 2008. As well as papers on Greek and Latin Studies and music in Antiquity, there is work seeking links between topics in Classical Studies and neighbouring disciplines such as Antique philosophy, archaeology, art history, modern German literature and music. The volume closes with a bibliograp…
Mesomedes
Documents of ancient Greek music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments Edited and Transcribed With Commentary
This uniquely complete and up-to-date collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music will serve as the standard work of reference for decades to come. Since its appearance in 1970, Egert Pohlmann's Denkmaler altgriechischer Musik has been the standard collection of the surviving fragments of ancient Greek music. But the publication of many further texts in recent years has put it in urgent need of updating. In this new English edition…
La scène ambulante des Technites
Le Ve s. connaît déjà des troupes d'artistes itinérants qui reprennent, pour leurs représentations, des tragédies et des comédies déjà couronnées à Athènes. Au IIIe s. ces artistes se regroupent en associations de Technites ; en 240 av. J.-C, avec Livius Andronicus, ils se propagent même jusqu'à Rome, sous le nom d'artifices. Sur les vases d'Italie du Sud, dits vases phlyaques, dont la datation doit être, depuis A.D. Trendall, remontée et attribu…
Die Überlieferung der Musik in der Antiken Welt
Bühne und Handlung im Aias des Sophokles
Antikenverständnis und Antikenmißverständnis in der Operntheorie der Florentiner Camerata
Lyrische Variationen. Anakreontische Motive bei Eduard Mörike
Griechische Musikfragmente. Ein Weg zur altgriechischen Musik
Neue griechische Musikfragmente
Excavation, Dating and Content of Two Tombs in Daphne, Odos Olgas 53, Athens
On 13. and 14. May 1981, in the course of emergency excavations in Odos Olgas 53 in Daphne, Athens, two tombs were excavated, the second of which was heralded as the Tomb of the Musician by the press. The contents were transferred to the National Archaeological Museum and later, after restoration, to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. In Tomb I there were found the bones of an adult person in his or her 40s, together with four lekythoi, which …
Multispectral documentation and image processing analysis of the papyrus of tomb II at Daphne, Greece
The Delphic Paeans of Athenaios and Limenios between Old and New Music
Currently, there are only 64 extant fragments of ancient Greek music, of which the bulk belongs to imperial times. Thus, the musical evidence for ‘New Music’, which had its climax in the second half of the 5th century, is limited. Nevertheless, one important observation is possible: fragments from classical times, which belong to antistrophic compositions, use melodies which do not mirror the prosody of the texts and simply repeat the melody of t…
The Monody of the Hoopoe in Aristophanes’
Animal choruses are familiar in ancient Greek comedy. Besides Aristophanes, there are 13 examples of them. Vase paintings provide evidence from the beginnings of Old Comedy. They had to sing the traditional melic parts of the agon and the parabasis. Aristophanes used the comic animal chorus in Knights (424 bc ), Wasps (422), Birds (414), Frogs (405) and Storks (395-387). Moreover, with the song of the Hoopoe in the Birds 227-62, Aristophanes pres…
Griechische Musikfragmente. Ein Weg zur altgriechischen Musik
Neue griechische Musikfragmente
Lyrische Variationen. Anakreontische Motive bei Eduard Mörike
Antikenverständnis und Antikenmißverständnis in der Operntheorie der Florentiner Camerata
Bühne und Handlung im Aias des Sophokles
Die Überlieferung der Musik in der Antiken Welt
La scène ambulante des Technites
Le Ve s. connaît déjà des troupes d'artistes itinérants qui reprennent, pour leurs représentations, des tragédies et des comédies déjà couronnées à Athènes. Au IIIe s. ces artistes se regroupent en associations de Technites ; en 240 av. J.-C, avec Livius Andronicus, ils se propagent même jusqu'à Rome, sous le nom d'artifices. Sur les vases d'Italie du Sud, dits vases phlyaques, dont la datation doit être, depuis A.D. Trendall, remontée et attribu…
Mesomedes
Documents of ancient Greek music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments Edited and Transcribed With Commentary
This uniquely complete and up-to-date collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music will serve as the standard work of reference for decades to come. Since its appearance in 1970, Egert Pohlmann's Denkmaler altgriechischer Musik has been the standard collection of the surviving fragments of ancient Greek music. But the publication of many further texts in recent years has put it in urgent need of updating. In this new English edition…
Present Past. Selected Papers: Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften
Egert Pöhlmann held the Chair of Classical Studies at the University of Erlangen until 2001. His minor writings collected here cover the period from 1968 to 2008. As well as papers on Greek and Latin Studies and music in Antiquity, there is work seeking links between topics in Classical Studies and neighbouring disciplines such as Antique philosophy, archaeology, art history, modern German literature and music. The volume closes with a bibliograp…
Multispectral documentation and image processing analysis of the papyrus of tomb II at Daphne, Greece
Excavation, Dating and Content of Two Tombs in Daphne, Odos Olgas 53, Athens
On 13. and 14. May 1981, in the course of emergency excavations in Odos Olgas 53 in Daphne, Athens, two tombs were excavated, the second of which was heralded as the Tomb of the Musician by the press. The contents were transferred to the National Archaeological Museum and later, after restoration, to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. In Tomb I there were found the bones of an adult person in his or her 40s, together with four lekythoi, which …
The Monody of the Hoopoe in Aristophanes’
Animal choruses are familiar in ancient Greek comedy. Besides Aristophanes, there are 13 examples of them. Vase paintings provide evidence from the beginnings of Old Comedy. They had to sing the traditional melic parts of the agon and the parabasis. Aristophanes used the comic animal chorus in Knights (424 bc ), Wasps (422), Birds (414), Frogs (405) and Storks (395-387). Moreover, with the song of the Hoopoe in the Birds 227-62, Aristophanes pres…
The Delphic Paeans of Athenaios and Limenios between Old and New Music
Currently, there are only 64 extant fragments of ancient Greek music, of which the bulk belongs to imperial times. Thus, the musical evidence for ‘New Music’, which had its climax in the second half of the 5th century, is limited. Nevertheless, one important observation is possible: fragments from classical times, which belong to antistrophic compositions, use melodies which do not mirror the prosody of the texts and simply repeat the melody of t…
The Hymn of Mesomedes on Antinous (Inscription of Courion, Mitford No. 104)
The citharode Mesomedes of Crete was one of the poets at the court of Hadrian. In late antiquity a selection of his poetry was assembled, and this corpus survived in transmission until medieval times, partly with musical notation. But of course the oeuvre of Mesomedes was much greater, as we see from two poems transmitted by the Greek Anthology and a lost encomium on Antinous, Hadrian’s paidika , as the Suda informs us. In his publication of the …
Vitruvius De Architectura V: Resounding Vessels in the Greek and Roman Theatre and Their Possible Afterlife in Eastern and Western Churches
In Book 5 of De architectura , the main subjects of Vitruvius are the Roman and Greek theatre and their acoustic qualities, explained with the help of several Greek theories. Vitruvius tries to enhance them by introducing a system of assisted resonance. Following the Harmonics of Aristoxenus, he recommends equipping theatre buildings with ἠχεῖα of bronze or earthenware, with the aim of increasing the strength of the voices of actors. Archaeologic…
Menander, Theophorumenē: A Song to Kybele on the Comic Stage
While Old Comedy abounds in musical parts, New Comedy restricts music to four act-dividing songs, about which in the papyri nothing but remarks like χοροῦ are transmitted. Monodies sung by actors are extremely rare. In Menander there are only two examples, a monody of a priestess in the Leukadia and a song to Kybele in the Theophoroumenē , transmitted in nine book fragments, three fragments on papyri and five mosaics depicting scenes connected wi…
Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods: Mesomedes, Proems - Hymns - Prayers
Between 100 and 160 AD, Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, wrote several short lyric poems. This volume presents six of these texts, namely addresses, hymns and prayers to gods, Greek traditional divinities and »new« gods. Apart from a new edition of the Greek text, it also contains a fresh, annotated translation into English and Italian. Furthermore, the contributors provide essays offering diverse perspectives on …
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