The Gorgons’ Lament

This article offers a fresh reading of Pindar’s Pythian 12, an ode composed for a victorious aulete, which demonstrates its engagement in current musicological debates concerning innovations in instrumentation, relations between the musical and vocal elements in choreia , and the status of the pipes. In ways that intersect with these issues, Pindar anticipates a motif that resurfaces in later Attic drama and other texts concerning the origins of choral lyric and that identifies women’s lament as the prototypical form of song

Aesthetics · Art · Choir · Drama · Lament · Linguistics · Literature · Motif (music · Musical · Poetics · Poetry · Reading (process · Visual arts · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy

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