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The Gorgons’ Lament: Auletics, Poetics, and Chorality in Pindar’s Pythian 12
- American Journal of Philology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 134, Number 2 (Whole Number 534), Summer 2013
- pp. 173-208
- 10.1353/ajp.2013.0015
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This article offers a fresh reading of Pindar’s Pythian 12, an ode composed for a victorious aulete, which demonstrates its engagement in current musicological debates concerning innovations in instrumentation, relations between the musical and vocal elements in choreia, and the status of the pipes. In ways that intersect with these issues, Pindar anticipates a motif that resurfaces in later Attic drama and other texts concerning the origins of choral lyric and that identifies women’s lament as the prototypical form of song.