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Received: February 2, 2017 Revision received: April 4, 2017 Copyright © 2017 Istanbul University Department of Sociology Accepted: June 29, 2017 tjs.istanbul.edu.tr/en OnlineFirst: November 30, 2017 DOI 10.26650/TJS.2017.2.0003 December 2017 37(2) 259 282
Original Article
Lyric Indecorum in Archaic Mytilene (and Beyond): Sappho F 99 c. I.1–9 L-P = Alcaeus F 303Aa V*
Timothy Power1
Abstract This paper considers a remarkable epithet in a lacunose fragment of Archaic Lesbian poetry that some have , against a member or members of the Polyanaktidai, an aristocratic family of Lesbian Mytilene, who are also mentioned in the fragment. This paper offers a new appraisal of the invective poetics of by taking a musicological and sociological approach, that is, by attending to the musical as well as the sexual dimen- sions of the epithet, and by reading it within the socio-musical context of Archaic Mytilene and Archaic and Classical Greece more widely. It is argued that the motivation and impact of the “dildo-receiving strings” evoked in the fragment are best appreciated in terms of the prestige of musical culture in Archaic Mytilene, society, sexually framed musical invective would have had a powerful effect, with political, social, and moral implications that went beyond the musical and the sexual. The paper concludes with a hypothesis about the origin of the tradition, reported in the Suda
Keywords
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The Phallic Plectrum chelys, lyra barbitos phorminx kithara barbitos
tau De Musica
barbitos
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phorminx kithara Anthology
phorminx
Satires
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kithara Mirabilia Historical Miscellany
Mimiamb olisbos and
Chordai Olisbodokoi “Dildo-Receiving Strings” Iliad Odyssey Homeric Hymn to Apollo
Leucippe and Clitophon plektron
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phorminx
Homeric Hymn to Hermes Hymn Library
Suda Suda barbitos Homeric Hymn to Apollo , olisbos
phorminx Hymn to Hermes olisboi Lysistrata olisbos olisboi Lexicon Suda
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olisbodokos olisbos
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olisbodokos olisbos
olisbos olisbos olisbodokos
olisbos de Poem. Suda
olisbos olisthein olisthos Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Grecque olisbos olisbos strike Hymns to Apollo Hermes
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olisbodokos
olisbodokos margos ‘
olisbodokos
viva voce
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barbitos
olisbodokos
olisboi Leucippe and Clitophon olisboi olisbos
Lyric Decorum in Mytilene strings chordai barbitos olisbodokos
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stasis
Adv. Ind. barbitos polis Letters amousia Historical Miscellany
stasis
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paideia moisopoloi
paideia Cim. Knights,
Moisopolos Alcestis, IG antitekhnoi Orations
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Cheiron
idion strobilon harmoniai Cheiron strobilos strobilos kithara strobilos strobilos olisbos strobilos
Immoral Lyres olisbodokos
strobilos Clouds paideia
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becomes olisbos
idia idios strobilos
hexis Life of Alcibiades aulos andreia
psogos olisbos olisbodokos
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chordai elelisdetai olisbodokoi elelisdein barmos barbitos
Knights olisbodokos
Olympian Pythian chelus melisdetai API
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hetaireia hetaireia barbitos barmos barbitos barmos barbitos
olisbodokos Adv. Ind.
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olisboi olisbodokos cause
Sappho’s Invention
Suda Suda Suda
olisbos olisbos
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olisbos olisbodokos olisbodokos
Suda Suda olisbos olisbos
Wasps Sappho
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Başvuru: 2 Şubat 2017 Revizyon Gönderimi: 4 Nisan 2017 Copyright © 2017 İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Kabul: 29 Haziran 2017 tjs.istanbul.edu.tr OnlineFirst: 30 Kasım 2017 DOI 10.26650/TJS.2017.2.0003 Aralık 2017 37(2) 259–282
Uzun Özet
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Timothy Power1
Öz terimini hem müzik hem cinsellikle
Anahtar Kelimeler Müzik, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Cinsellik
indecorum Sosyoloji Dergisi, 37 Power
olisbodokos Olisbodokos
Chordai olisbodokoi olisbodokos olisbodokos
olisbos
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Kheiron iambos Kheiron 8
olisbodokos katakhresis
kithara
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hypallage olisbodokos barmos barbitos barmos barbitos
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elegeia iambos olisbodokos olisbodokos olisbos olisbos
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