Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse

Contents

Prologue: Justification and Method

First Part: Relative Basic Durations and Syllabic Equivalences

1. Prior Questions

2. Relative Basic Durations; Their Level of Probability and Their Hypothetical Frequency of Use

3. Syllabic Equivalences

Second Part: Rhythmic Value of Traditional Poetic-Musical Genres

1. Dactylic hexameter

2. Elegiac distich

3. Stichic iambs and trochees

4. Anapaests

5. Aeolic lyric

6. Ionics

7. Cretic and paeonic sequences

8. Dochmii

9. Iambo-trochaic lyric

10. The dactylo-epitrites

11. On dactylo-trochaic or iambo-anapaestic sequences

Third Part: Rhythmic Proposals for Some Metrically Compound Passages

1. Archilochus fr. 188 W, 1–2 (epodic strophe; see also fr. 189–192 W).

2. Alcman fr. 1, 36–49 P (mixed lyric strophe)

3. Alcaeus fr. 140, 2–4 Voigt (short Aeolic-iambic strophe plus a part of the

4. Sappho fr. 94, 1–5 Voigt (dactylic Aeolic strophe preceded by two verses of

5. Sappho fr. 96, 6–9 Voigt (Aeolic strophe plus a part of the first verse of the

6. Anacreon fr. 388, 1–4 P (choriambic-iambic strophe plus a part of the first

7. Aeschylus Septem contra Thebas 626–630

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8. Bacchylides 17 S-M, 1–23 (metrically mixed strophe)

9. Pindar Olympia 1, 12–22 S-M (antistrophe of a metrically mixed ode)

10. Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 168–177

165

11. Euripides Hercules Furens 425–435

167

12. Euripides Bacchae 370–385

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