Hymn(Greek hýmnos - praise) in Ancient Greece - "a cult song in honor of a deity", usually performed by a choir. Yes, hymns paeans turned to Apollo parthenia- to Athena praises- to Dionysus. There were also hymns in honor of solemn events: epithalamus(wedding) epinicia(in honor of the Olympians). The hymns of Callimachus (3rd century BC) no longer have a cult purpose and are intended not for choral singing, but for reading. “Under the name of the hymns, works of an epic-narrative nature are known - the so-called Homeric hymns (attributed in ancient times to Homer).” In general, “the rudiments of the epic, lyrics and drama are seen in the hymns” (LES. - P. 77-78).

Elegy(from the Greek élegos - a plaintive song), “a lyrical genre, a poem of medium length, meditative or emotional content ..., most often in the first person, without a distinct composition. ... The form of an ancient elegy - elegiac distich". It may have developed in Ionian Asia Minor from lamentations over the dead. The elegy originated in Greece in the 7th century. BC. (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Theognidus), originally had a moral and political content, then, in Hellenistic and Roman poetry (Tibull, Propertius, Ovid), love themes become predominant” - M.L. Gasparov (LES. - P. 508). “The Lida of Antimachus (a combination of myths about unhappy love) was considered a model” (SA. - P. 650-651).

« Yambs, a genre of poems, mostly accusatory, less often elegiac, with alternating written iambic [poems. size] of long and short lines in a stanza” – M.L. Gasparov (LES. - P. 528). “The prototypes of the iambic as a literary genre were ritual reproach, which served as a magical means of averting evil at fertility festivals; their metric base was iambic. The form of this ritual poetry was used by the Greek poet Archilochus (7th century BC), who is considered the founder of the iambic. Hipponact (end of the 6th century BC) invented the “lame iambic” (holiyamb) - an iambic verse with a break in rhythm at the end of each line - and applied it to his witty, rude, daring poems. In the era of Hellenism, Kallimachus, Herod turned to the iamb. "Iambic poetry entered Roman literature thanks to Lucilius." His undertaking was continued by neoteriki and Horace ("Epodes"). "The last significant iambographers of antiquity were Persius, Petronius and Martial" in Rome (SA. - p.675).

« Oh yeah(from the Greek ōdē - song), a genre of lyric poetry. In antiquity, the word “ode” at first did not have a terminological meaning, then it began to denote a lyrical choral song of a solemn, upbeat, moralizing character, predominantly written in stanzas ... ”- M.L. Gasparov (LES. - P. 258). “The themes of odic poetry were varied: mythology, human life, love, state, glory, etc. The largest odic poets of antiquity are Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar, Horace ”(SA. - P. 390).

Epigram(Greek epigramma - inscription), in ancient poetry - originally "a short lyric poem of arbitrary content" (LES. - P.511). Developed in Ancient Greece from dedicatory inscriptions on monuments, sacrifices. It appeared in Greek poetry in the 7th-6th centuries. BC, reached its peak in the III-I centuries. BC. A distinctive feature of the epigram is the accuracy of expressions. Often created in the form of elegiac distichs. Latin literary epigram developed under the influence of Alexandrian poetry. Impromptu epigrams were popular in educated circles. “At the same time, they increasingly contained mocking satirical features and witticisms. This direction of development began under Catullus and culminated in the witty, original epigrams of Martial, which remained a model until the present ”(SA. - P. 659).

Satire- a lyrical poem of accusatory orientation, often having the character of an oratorical speech of a lyrical hero, a critical review of social life and mores of people, in which satire is widely used as one of the types of comic along with other types (sarcasm, irony, humor, etc.). This literary genre originated and developed in ancient Rome. It was based on satura. The name goes back to lat. lanx satura - a dish filled with all sorts of fruits, which was brought to the temple of the goddess Ceres; in a figurative sense - a mixture, all sorts of things. Satura is “a genre of early Roman literature: a collection of short poetic and prose works of deliberately varied content (parables, invectives, moral sketches, popular philosophical reasoning, etc.). Appeared at the beginning of the 2nd century. BC. in Ennius as an imitation of Hellenistic literature. ... Already at the end of the II century. BC. in Lucilius Gaius, satura becomes an entirely poetic genre, acquires a accusatory connotation and is reborn into satire in Horace, Persius Flaccus and Juvenal, and the more archaic satura (“mixture”) dies off ”- M.L. Gasparov (LES. - P. 371).

Genre of ancient poetry

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dithyramb

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In ancient Greece: a solemn song in honor of the god Dionysus

m. Greek a lyrical poem in the rapture of wine, joy, passionate admiration, a hymn or song in honor of Bacchus; inordinate praise. dithyramb, -bic, pertaining to dithyramb

Song in honor of the god Dionysus among the ancient Greeks

Exaggerated eulogy

Word definitions for dithyramb in dictionaries

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998 The meaning of the word in the dictionary Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998
DITHYRAMB (Greek dithyrambos) was originally a choral cult song in honor of the god Dionysus. Later literary form, close to the hymn and ode (Pindar, Arion, Schiller, Herder). Exaggerated praise.

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The meaning of the word in the dictionary Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(Greek dithýrambos), a genre of ancient lyrics; appeared, apparently, in ancient Greece as a choral song, a hymn in honor of the god of the vine and winemaking Dionysus, or Bacchus (later other gods and heroes); accompanied by an orgiastic (frantic) dance; had...

New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova. The meaning of the word in the dictionary New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.
m. Solemn choral song in honor of the god Dionysus (in ancient Greece). Laudatory verses close to an ode. Exaggerated, enthusiastic praise.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov The meaning of the word in the dictionary Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov
dithyramba, m. (Greek dithyrambos). The ancient Greeks had a solemn song in honor of Dionysus (lit.). Immoderate, enthusiastic praise (book). Sing praises to someone.

Wikipedia The meaning of the word in the Wikipedia dictionary
Dithyramb is a genre of ancient Greek choral lyrics. Dithyrambs are folk hymns of a stormy orgiastic nature, performed by a choir, mostly disguised as satyrs, at a grape harvest festival in honor of Dionysus, the god of the productive forces of nature and wine ...

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. The meaning of the word in the dictionary Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova.
-a, m. In ancient Greece: a solemn song in honor of the god Dionysus. Exaggerated, enthusiastic praise (book). Sing praises to someone. (praise beyond measure). adj. dithyrambic, th, th.

The term "lyric" does not belong to the era we are considering; it was created later, during the time of the Alexandrian philologists, replacing the earlier term “melika” (from melos - “song”), and was applied to those types of songs that were performed to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument, primarily a seven-stringed lyre, the invention which the myth ascribes to the god Hermes. At the present time, when one speaks of Greek lyric poetry, the term is used in a broader sense, embracing such genres that the ancients did not recognize as "lyrical", for example, elegies accompanied by the sounds of a flute.

The preservation of the works of meli poets is the worst. Due to the fact that the song (melik) nature of the performance of this type of lyrics is unknown and inaccessible to us, acquaintance with the melika is most difficult. Melik poetry developed in the forms of choral and solo meliks. It was song poetry, the emotional and artistic impact of which is determined by the combination of words, the rhythm of the verses and the motive in singing. The choral melik originates from cult poetry, from hymns in honor of the gods. The center of the melik was the Doric regions of Greece. The solo melika especially developed on the island of Lesbos, the birthplace of two major poets, Altai and Sappho. Choral lyrics flourished primarily in Sparta, so the ideals of Spartan valor were sung in it: the whole life of a person is devoted to the fulfillment of patriotic duty.

It is necessary to distinguish: 1) elegy, 2) iambic and 3) melika, or lyric in the narrow sense of the word; this latter, in turn, has numerous divisions depending on the content or cult task of the song, but the main one is its division into two categories - monodic lyrics performed by an individual singer, and choral lyrics. The difference between all these types was due to the fact that they arose from various types of folklore songs, received their literary development in different regions of Greece and in different class conditions, and each genre had its own themes, its own stylistic and verse features, and even retained the dialect of that region. in which he first took shape in literature. The genres developed independently and very rarely crossed with each other.

Elegy and iambic are the most important lyrical genres created in Ionia. Both genres are associated with folk ritual songs;

An elegy is, as a rule, a poem of instructive content, which did not have an obligatory mournful character in Greece. An elegy can simply contain a reflection on a wide variety of topics: we know military, political, love elegies. Elegies were sung at feasts and folk gatherings. The external sign of the elegy, which distinguished it from all other genres, is a special verse structure, the regular alternation of a hexameter with a verse of a slightly different structure, a pentameter, forming a stanza of two verses, an elegiac distich (elegiac couplet). This melodic structure was probably already characteristic of the old lament, and the literary elegy adopted it, along with the accompaniment of the flute. Traces of the former mournful nature of the elegy are also preserved in the use of elegiac meter for poetic inscriptions on tombstones.

The iambic was of a completely different origin. At the agricultural festivals of fertility (p. 20), which were characterized by revelry, bickering and foul language, mocking and accusatory songs were heard, directed against individuals or entire groups. These songs were called iambs

All these features of folk iambic, a satirical and accusatory character, a personally pointed mockery, were preserved in the iambic literary genre, but it also went beyond the folkloric framework, turned into an instrument for expressing personal feelings and moods.

The external sign of the iambic genre is again the use of special poetic meters, iambs ( -) or trochees (trochees: - ). Of the iambic verses, the most common is trimeter ("three-dimensional")

Examples of poets - Archilochus: personal life, military adventures, attitude towards friends and enemies, satirical, love theme. TIRTEY - “warlike elegies” and marching song - “embatery”. Solon - the personal responsibility of each person to the state, capable of contributing to its prosperity or death by their actions, the theme of retribution punishing the entire city. FEOGNID - subjective-personal, and socially-defined views. political orientation.