Meanwhile tragedy, as developed by Athenian dramatists of the calibre of Aeschylus and Sophocles, had begun to emerge as the leading poetic genre, borrowing the literary dialect, the metres and poetic devices of lyric poetry in general and the dithyramb in particular ( Aristotle Poetics IV 1449a ).

Later examples were dedicated to other gods, but the dithyramb subsequently was developed ( traditionally by Arion ) into a literary form.

The dithyramb (, dithurambos ) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility ; the term was also used as an epithet of the god: Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions " the birth of Dionysos, called, I think, the dithyramb.

Sleeman observes of the dithyramb, or circular chorus, " It is first mentioned by Archilochus ( c 665 BC )… Arion flourished at least 50 years later … probably gave it a more artistic form, adding a chorus of 50 people, personating satyrs … who danced around an altar of Dionysus.

The earliest mention of dithyramb found by Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, is in a fragment of Archilochus, who flourished in the first half of the seventh century BCE: " I know how to lead the fair song of the Lord Dionysus, the dithyramb, when my wits are fused with wine.

Aristotle writes in the Poetics that tragedy was born from the beginning improvisation, namely " by those who chant the dithyramb " (, apò ton exarchòntōn tòn dithýrambon ), a song choir in honor of Dionysus.

Arion () was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: " As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth ," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth.

Herodotus ( 1, 23 ) says " Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first man we know of to compose and name the dithyramb and teach it in Corinth ".

He was doubtless the first to introduce the dithyramb into Corinth ".

According to Aristotle, the dithyramb was the origin of Athenian tragedy.

" As a literary composition for chorus, their inspiration is unknown, although it was likely Greek, as Herodotus explicitly speaks of Arion of Lesbos as " the first of men we know to have composed the dithyramb and named it and produced it in Corinth ".

The clearest sense of dithyramb as proto-tragedy comes from a surviving dithyramb by Bacchylides, though it was composed after tragedy had already developed fully.

In the later 5th century BCE, the dithyramb " became a favorite vehicle for the musical experiments of the poets of the ' new music '.

This information is completed by a step of Stories ( I, 23 ) of Herodotus and later sources, in which the lyric Arione Methymna is defined inventor of the dithyramb.

Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning ( both tragedy and comedy — tragedy from the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities ), grew little by little, as poets developed whatever part of it had appeared ; and, passing through many changes, tragedy came to a halt, since it had attained its own nature.

According to Aristotle, Athenian tragedy developed from the dithyramb ; the two forms developed alongside one another for some time.

In archaic times, Arion developed the type of poem called dithyramb, the progenitor of tragedy, and Terpander invented the seven note musical scale for the lyre.

In Të lindet njeriu (" May the man be born ") and particularly, in the Nietzschean dithyramb Trajtat e Mbinjeriut (" The shape of the Superman "), a strangled, crushed will transforms itself into " ardent desire for a new genius ," for the Superman to come.

These three imitational genres include dramatic dialogue, the drama ; pure narrative, the dithyramb ; and a mixture of the two, the epic.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

This is especially interesting because Arion is credited with the invention of the dithyramb, a dionysiac song.

The underwater encounter is also the subject of a Bacchylides dithyramb.

The name " Semele ", like other elements of Dionysiac cult ( e. g., thyrsus and dithyramb ), is not Greek but Thraco-Phrygian ;, derived from a PIE root meaning " earth ".

As a poet, Redi's best known work is the dithyramb, " Bacco in Toscana " (" Bacchus in Tuscany ").

The word dithyramb is of unknown but probably non-Greek derivation.

As a dialogue between a solitary singer and a chorus, Bacchylides ' dithyramb is suggestive of what tragedy may have resembled before Aeschylus added a second actor.

Scholars have made a number of assumptions about the way in which it is accomplished by changing the dithyramb to tragedy.

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After settling in Athens, he probably adapted the dithyramb, customary in his native home, with its chorus of satyrs, to complement the form of tragedy which had been recently invented in Athens.

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls " poetry " ( a term which in Greek literally means " making " and in this context includes drama — comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play — as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb ).

Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning ( both tragedy and comedy — tragedy from the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities ) [...] ( 1449a10-13 )

The dithyramb treats a moment in myth before the Trojan war, when Menelaus, Antenor, and Antenor ’ s sons go to King Priam to demand the return of Helen.

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The ancient Greeks themselves counted among the special criteria of the dithyramb its special rhythm, its aulos accompaniment in Phrygian mode, its highly-wrought vocabulary, its considerable narrative content, and its originally antistrophic character.

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