Talk:Dithyramb

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A contextual phrase read for this word was "Churchillian dithyramb", or exalted speach.

Questions unanswered

This article still leaves some questions unanswered: How do we know about dithyrambs? How many survive? What is the earliest surviving dithyramb? Is our picture of the dithyramb based on what ancients authors say ABOUT dithyrambs, or on the texts of actual dithyrambs themselves?--72.225.250.121 (talk) 20:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

These are good questions. I notice that the footnotes (with one exception) are to primary sources and to the great Ms. Harrison, whose views are always of interest, but not surely the last word nearly 100 years later. The use of works listed under References (scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s) is therefore unclear. I would suggest a separate subhead on the term and its ancient and modern etymologies, streamlining this material in the introduction, which should address what are likely to be the immediate questions of the reader and not necessarily the linguistic difficulties. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Nietzsche

Nietzsche used the term dithyramb in his works and from the POV of his Zarathustra. Potentially worth mentioning as in modern philosophy (much as his use of 'hyperborean')? Nagelfar (talk) 11:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

This is a great article

Certainly better than start class! Kudos to the editors.--LeValley 21:06, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

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