Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye. |
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His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus. |
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He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet. |
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Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations. |
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Older scholars, following statements in Aristotle's Poetics, saw in the dithyramb the foundations of Attic tragedy. |
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His father's name, Cycleus, indicates the connection of the son with the cyclic or circular chorus of the dithyramb. |
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The first time theatre truly freed itself from religious ritual to become an art form was in Greece in the 6th century bce when the dithyramb was developed. |
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