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- Title
Cheeks, Jaws, Effort and Auletics: Observations on Pindar's Pythian 12.
- Authors
Akhunova, Olga L.
- Abstract
This paper is an attempt to clarify a number of difficult places in Pindar's description of the Gorgons' lament in Pythian 12, which have given rise to inconsistent interpretations and remain insufficiently clear (δυσπενθέϊ σὺν καμάτῳ , 10; εὐπαράου Μεδοίσας , 16; τὸν ... ἐκ καρπαλιμᾶν γενύων χριμφθέντα ... γόον , 20-21). The central contention is that these details are directly relevant to the technical aspects of aulos-playing (the strain which is required to produce the sound, the position and movement of the mouth, the 'good-quality' cheeks) and provide clues to intriguing details of the myth that Pindar tells in Pythian 12.
- Subjects
GORGONS (Greek mythology); PYTHIAN Ode 1 (Poem : Pindar); AULOS; WOODWIND instruments; SOUND
- Publication
Mnemosyne, 2022, Vol 75, Issue 5, p697
- ISSN
0026-7074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/1568525X-BJA10070