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The Dance of the Muses
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: the right comparison
2: Choreia and the musical text
3: The voice of the dancer: a new theory of the Greek accent
4: The form of the hexameter: the origins of caesura and diaeresis
5: The `choral signifier': the shaping of Homeric speech
6: Retrogression, episode, and anagogy: the round dance and narrative form
7: The genesis of Homeric poetry (a brief synthesis): the `intemporizing' cataloguer
8: The lyric orchestra

About the Author

A. P. David completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

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...David often asks important questions that the scholarly discourse tends to avoid, and soemtimes proposes fascinating answers...
*Stefan Hagel, GNOMON*

develops a new approach to the interpretation of ancient Greek poetry
*Massimo Giuseppetti, The Classical Review*

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