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Pindaric Metre: The ‘Other Half’

Kiichiro Itsumi

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780199229611

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199229611.001.0001

Aeolic Phrases

Chapter:
(p. 24 ) 5. Aeolic Phrases
Source:
Pindaric Metre: The ‘Other Half’
Author(s):

Kiichiro Itsumi

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199229611.003.0005

This chapter describes the typology of various aeolic phrases and their characteristics. The main topics are the aeolic base, the second position of reversed dodrans, catalexis, prolongation, and resolution. Statistics are provided so as to make clear the tendency of Pindar. Difference from the general tendency found in a particular verse provides the criteria by which stanza-forms are classified later in Chapter 8.

Keywords:   aeolic base, reversed dodrans, catalexis, prolongation, resolution

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