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Dithyrambos
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Classical Athens|Attic [[relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above]] The dithyramb (; , dithyrambos) 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." Plato also remarks in the Republic that dithyrambs are the clearest example of poetry in which the poet is t
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Der Dithyrambos (griechisch διθύραμβος dithýrambos; latinisiert dithyrambus; Plural Dithyramben) ist eine Gattung der antiken griechischen Chorlyrik, ein Hymnos zu Ehren des Gottes Dionysos, vorgetragen im Rahmen der Dionysien im Wechselgesang zwischen Chor und Vorsänger.
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