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	Aoidoi: Homeric Hymns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They are written in the same meter and dialect mix as Homer's poems, so it's not too misleading to continue to call them Homeric.
		The Hymns — also called προοίμια, proems — were apparently brief invocations to a god the rhapsodes recited before starting in on a larger epic.
		They start off by naming a god, asking the Muses to aid the poet in singing about the god, followed by a list of the deity's attributes and hang-outs.
	www.aoidoi.org /poets/hymns (266 words)

	Les Rhapsodes
		The name Les Rhapsodes was adopted in 1964, and the group received its provincial charter in 1970.
		In 1988-9, Les Rhapsodes began to offer a regular season comprising three programs, presented at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, the Théâtre Périscope and the Institut Canadien.
		Among the choir's notable recent performances were Concert de Noël with pop singer Roch Voisine in December 2000; and the premieres of two works by Marc Gagné (his Christmas fable Le Père Noël, la Sorcière et l'Enfant in 2002, which was later broadcast on Radio-Canada, and his opera Héloïse et Abélard in 2006).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=U1ARTU0002963 (545 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Ion by Plato
		I often envy the profession of a rhapsode, Ion; for you have always to wear fine clothes, and to look as beautiful as you can is a part of your art.
		O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speak the truth.
		Why, yes, Ion, because you may possibly have a knowledge of the art of the general as well as of the rhapsode; and you may also have a knowledge of horsemanship as well as of the lyre: and then you would know when horses were well or ill managed.
	classics.mit.edu /Plato/ion.html (3483 words)

	Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Ion is a prize-winning professional reciter of poetry — a “rhapsode” — and of Homer in particular.
		In Socrates' unforgettable simile, the relationship of the god to poet to rhapsode to audience is like a magnetized sequence of links in a chain, each ring of which sticks to the next thanks to the power of the divine magnet at the start (535e7-b4).
		Finally, since the poets and their rhapsodes both present views about how things are and ought to be, and seek to persuade their auditors of the same, they cannot escape responsibility for the implicit claim to wisdom and authority they make.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-rhetoric (12979 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.04.04
		Moreover, the shortest Hymns should not be considered abbreviations of the long ones, as some have thought, but, on the contrary, would be especially useful to the rhapsode as a kind of minimalist acknowledgment of the divinity at whose festival he was performing.
		The rhapsodes, according to F., use formulas and epithets inherited from Homer as well as some new ones created for their new subject-matter and frequently deploy them in a more self-conscious manner.
		From the epic, the rhapsodes also learned their narrative and descriptive style, especially the dynamic rather than static descriptions of divinities, the emphasis on their characteristic activities, which F. traces to epic similes, as well as typical scenes and motifs such as dressing, arrival on Olympus, and epiphany.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.04.04.html (2135 words)

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		On the other hand, about half of the poem is direct narrative, with the rhapsode describing events as they unfold.
		The rhapsode (the ancient Greek term for an epic poet) generally wears nice but not-too-funky clothes, shaves, deodorizes, and wields a rhabdos.
		As with many ancient elements in the poem, however, the subsequent inclusion of a rhabdos was not a nostalgic move.
	college.holycross.edu /faculty/jmitchel/plainsofabraham/show.htm (783 words)

	The concept and meaning of poetry in the past and present- Munir Mezyed
		He does this in the conversation that occurs between Socrates and Ion, a rhapsode, which is a professional performer of poetry in ancient Greece.
		In classical antiquity, a rhapsode was a professional reciter of poetry, especially the epics of Homer, but also the wisdom-verse of Hesiod and the satires of Archilochus, among others.
		The activity of the rhapsode is not qualified for inclusion in the sphere of tekhne and episteme, since the rhapsode can speak about Homer alone and not about poetry as a whole (531a, 532c8).
	www.alhijawi.com /m6mag.htm (8891 words)

	Plato, The Dialogues, vol. 1 - Ion: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Socrates admires and envies the rhapsode’s art; for he is always well dressed and in good company—in the company of good poets and of Homer, who is the prince of them.
		The rhapsode is not guided by rules of art, but is an inspired person who derives a mysterious power from the poet; and the poet, in like manner, is inspired by the God.
		The rhapsode belongs to the realm of imitation and of opinion: he professes to have all knowledge, which is derived by him from Homer, just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom, which is contained in his art of rhetoric.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Plato0204/Dialogues/HTMLs/0131-01_Pt09_Ion.html (4989 words)

	pizoi\ah\plato-ion: The Plato Project: Ion by Plato
		You know the passage in which Hecamede, the concubine of Nestor, is described as giving to the wounded Machaon a posset, as he says, Made with Pramnian wine; and she grated cheese of goat's milk with a grater of bronze, and at his side placed an onion which gives a relish to drink.
		Socrates claims that rhapsodes and poets are "inspired" and "impelled" to perform and create their work.
		Socrates sketches a hierarchy of knowledge in which the knowledge of the rhapsode or the poet is always inferior to the knowledge of other practitioners.
	www.angelfire.com /art3/fleeding/ah/plato-ion.html (4874 words)

	Gregory Nagy, section 5
		In terms of my evolutionary model for the making of Homeric poetry, the figure of the rhapsode is the very embodiment of an evolving medium that continues, in the course of time, to put more and more limitations on the process of recomposition-in-performance.
		The succession of rhapsodes linking a Homer in the remote past with Homeric performances in the "present" of the historical period-as extrapolated from such accounts as Plato's Ion-is a diachronic reality.
		I would counterargue that the explicit reference in Diogenes Laertius 1.57 to Solon the lawgiver as the one who set the sequence of performance suggests that the specification of the sequence was indeed part of the law.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0006:chapter=3:section=5&highlight=davison (1129 words)

	Primary Works
		Then, again, you are obliged to be continually in the company of many good poets; and especially of Homer, who is the best snd most divine of them; and to understand him, and not merely learn his words by rote, is a thing greatly to be envied.
		For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, and he cannot do this well unless he knows what he means.
		I wish, Ion, that we could be truly called wise: but the truth is that you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; and I am a common man, who only speaks the truth.
	english.byu.edu /resources/littheory/Theory.html/Ion.html (3251 words)

	Chapter 1
		That the rhapsodes who performed at such festivals were in competition with each other is evident also from the reference in Herodotus (5.67.1) to agônes 'contests' (agônizesthai) in the public performance of "Homer's words" by rhapsôidoi 'rhapsodes' in the city-state of Sikyon, which were banned under the reign of the tyrant Kleisthenes.
		In the case of Homeric poetry, the earliest phases of rhapsodic transmission are associated with the Homêridai, a corporation of rhapsodes who traced themselves to an ancestor called Homêros (Pindar Nemean2.1; Plato Phaedrus 252b; Strabo 14.1.33-35 C 645; Contest of Homer and Hesiod, p.
		Even in such matters of minute detail, we may infer that the oral tradition of the rhapsodes was inherited--albeit in an ossified or crystalized phase--from the oral tradition of the singers who came before them.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter1.html (13922 words)

	sample exam-question response, English 230
		He is uncertain because rhapsodes of this time told stories by word of mouth.
		The rhapsodes and Homer were faceless, nameless storytellers who had no effect on the story.
		Odysseus is seen as the traditional hero because readers want him to succeed in his journey home; he is strong and he is clever (which is why he is referred to as the "man of many wiles").
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~felluga/heroexam.html (761 words)

	Homeric Recitation - Styles
		Another possibility is that they were incrementally created by the later performers, the rhapsodes, by a process of `competitive collaboration' whereby the various stories contributing to the epics were performed in sequence and gradually worked into a coherent whole (this would provide a nice account of the meaning of the term `rhapsode', which is `stitcher').
		It is unclear how much freedom to innovate the rhapsodes had, but it is clear that they thought of themselves as performing the works of a definite poet, Homer, rather than actively building something creative, or directly receiving inspiration from the muses, as the original aoidoi claimed to do.
		My guess is that since the rhapsodic style was bigtime public entertainment in a mediterranean country, it may have had to be more 'dynamic' than the performances of the aoidoi.
	arts.anu.edu.au /linguistics/people/averyandrews/homer/styles.htm (606 words)

	Nemean
		'rhapsodes' is expressed indirectly by the various myths that link the fixity of Homeric composition with the fixation of rhapsodic performance.
		According to the myths that we have considered so far, the reintegration of a prototypical text causes both the fixity of Homeric composition and the fixation of rhapsodic performance.
		As we have seen, the evolution of a poetic tradition, moving slowly ahead in time until it reaches a relatively static phase, can be reinterpreted by myth as if it resulted from a single incident, a "big bang," pictured as the instantaneous recovery or even regeneration of a lost text, an archetype.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/xmlchunk.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0006:chapter=3:section=6 (1023 words)

	McLuhan Program - Toronto School of Communications - Plato's Critique of the Sophists
		These few surviving documents have allowed scholars to trace the line of descent from poet to rhapsode to sophist as part of the transition from oral tradition to written record.
		As the epics came to be preserved in written collections, a group of rhapsodes became interpreters as well as presenters of poetry.
		Some of the earliest prose consists of their efforts to explain the meaning of traditional names and phrases in the old theogonies.
	www.utoronto.ca /mcluhan/tsc_plato_critique_sophists.htm (1439 words)

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		The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, [536] and the poet himself is the first of them.
		You know the passage in which Hecamede, the concubine of Nestor, is described as giving to the wounded Machaon a posset, as he says, Made with Pramnian win; and she grated cheese of goat's milk with a grater of bronze, and at his side placed an onion which gives a relish to drink.
		Why, Socrates, the reason is, that my countrymen, the Ephesians, are the servants and soldiers of Athens, and do not need a general; and you and Sparta are not likely to have me, for you think that you have enough gerenals of your own.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/affiliatesite/ion.html (3317 words)

	Saison 2003-2004 des Rhapsodes
		Les Rhapsodes se sont assurés la participation des meilleurs talents musicaux de la région, instrumentistes comme solistes.
		Le samedi 20 mars 2004, à l’église Saint-Dominique, les Rhapsodes interpréteront l’immortel Requiem de Mozart, avec les meilleurs solistes et instrumentistes.
		Le Chœur Les Rhapsodes est reconnu comme l’un des organismes musicaux majeurs de la Capitale Nationale.
	www.lesrhapsodes.com /Comunc/Comunc26.html (448 words)

	Rhapsode
		Here a rhapsode stands on a platform and performs before a listener.
		The man behind him with a forked stick may be a judge.
		The rhapsode holds in his left hand a staff (rhabdos) that is a sign of his profession.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/rhapsode.html (41 words)

	PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL
		For example, the first prize for the kithara-singer was an olive crown in gold worth 1,000 drachmas (at least $32,000 and 500 silver drachmas (at least $16000).
		Reciters called rhapsodes (literally, 'stitchers of song') competed at public festivals in the recitation of epic poetry, in particular the Homeric poems and other poems belonging to the Epic Cycle.
		It is believed that the Homeric texts used by the rhapsodes are the ancestors of Homeric poems that we have inherited.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/rligious.htm (1632 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		We've got many beautiful vase-paintings of rhapsodes “in performance” but only one extensive literary narrative which can give us an insight into the peculiarities of their art.
		The protagonist, Ion of Ephesus, is a professional rhapsode, who travels around Greece reciting poetry and earns his living from the prizes he wins at rhapsodic contests; Ion's interlocutor is none other but Socrates, who explicitly pairs-up rhapsodes and actors: “you, the rhapsode and actor”, he addresses Ion.
		We simply do not know -and never will- how much of his heart the rhapsode was prepared to pour into his recitations and how congruent his own feelings were likely to be with the feelings inscribed in his text.
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol5no2/ladarichards.html (3646 words)

	Plato's
		Ion the rhapsode has just come to Athens; he has been exhibiting in Epidaurus at the festival of Asclepius, and is intending to exhibit at the festival of the Panathenaea.
		Socrates admires and envies the rhapsode’s art; for he is always well dressed and in good company-in the company of good poets and of Homer, who is the prince of them.
		In the Protagoras the ancient poets are recognized by Protagoras himself as the original sophists; and this family resemblance may be traced in the Ion.
	www.ancienttexts.org /library/greek/plato/ion.html (4674 words)

	PLATO - ION - 360 BC - FULL TEXT - IN ONE COMPLETE WEBPAGE PART - Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) - Athenaeum ...
		Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another.
		And she descended into the deep like a leaden plummet, which, set in the horn of ox that ranges in the fields, rushes along carrying death among the ravenous fishes,-
		Suppose the slave to be a cowherd; the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd what he ought to say in order to soothe the infuriated cows?
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /plato_ion.htm (3505 words)

	LIBRARIES
		It could be argued that the need for the creation of this first public library, the contents of which were not necessarily exclusively literary, was dictated by the open competitions between rhapsodes that became established in the 6th century as part of the festivities of the Panathenaia.
		The competitions at the Panathenaia included recitations of epic poetry, with the rhapsodes following one another and reading a specified text from a given point.
		It is possible, therefore, that the official texts of the Homeric poems were kept in a special room, thus giving rise to the first public literary library in Athens.
	www.libraries.gr /nonmembers/en/history_ellinikos_prosokratiki.htm (375 words)

	Plato : Ion : Ion
		SOCRATES: I often envy the profession of a rhapsode, Ion; for you have always to wear fine clothes, and to look as beautiful as you can is a part of your art.
		SOCRATES: O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speak the truth.
		SOCRATES: Why, yes, Ion, because you may possibly have a knowledge of the art of the general as well as of the rhapsode; and you may also have a knowledge of horsemanship as well as of the lyre: and then you would know when horses were well or ill managed.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.1795/sec.2 (3618 words)

	Improvisation in Rhapsodic Performance. - Helios - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Rhapsodes have received increasing attention in recent scholarship, (1) although there has still been no attempt to organize all of the evidence into a coherent whole (2)--a task that I do not wish to undertake here.
		Instead, in this essay I aim to continue a line of exploration concerning the performance of rhapsodes which has been hampered by an ancient and modern prejudice against their "creative" abilities.
		This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-80849884.html?refid=ip_hf (144 words)

	Orchestre Symphonique de Laval
		L'un des rares chefs à connaître aussi bien les choeurs que les orchestres, il a été chef du Choeur Les Rhapsodes de Québec, du choeur Elgar de Montréal, de l'Ensemble vocal Louis-Lavigueur, du choeur du Conservatoire de Montréal et de celui de l'université de Montréal.
		One of few conductors to be equally at ease with both choirs and orchetras, he conducted the choirs Les Rhapsodes of Quebec City, Elgar of Montreal, the Ensemble vocal Louis-Lavigueur and the choirs of the Conservatoire de Montréal and of the Université de Montréal.
		Besides the OSJM, Louis Lavigueur is the artistic director of the Hull Chamber Orchestra, staff conductor of the McGill Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the Pierre-Laporte School choirs and orchestra.
	www153.pair.com /bensav/Interpretes/OSLaval.html (562 words)

	Poetry - Homer as Educator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Children were exposed to the poems before they could read by rhapsodes, who were men who traveled the country performing the poems as song so as to teach the poems to new learners.
		And the poems did such a good job of teaching subjects beyond their immediate realm, that the study of geography or astronomy were considered unnecessary, if not ludicrous.
		While in Greece, listen to a group of rhapsodes perform.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~ph10/qfk/poetry3.htm (411 words)

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