It took the form of massive abstract motifs that the artist called " dithyrambs, " from the early Greek hymns of praise to the orgiastic god Dionysus.
32.
Themistius, who speaks of a young poet in Egypt as the author of a tragedy, epic poems, and dithyrambs, appears likewise to allude to this Andronicus.
33.
Moreover, he planned the publication of the compilation " Nietzsche Contra Wagner " and of the poems that made up his collection " Dionysian Dithyrambs ".
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Pratinas was also a writer of dithyrambs and the choral odes called " hyporchemata " ( a considerable fragment of one of these is preserved in Athenaeus, xiv . 617 ).
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And yet, there may be some justification for such a book _ if it persuades just one poetaster to take up needlepoint or mud-wrestling and keep his dithyrambs to himself.
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According to the " Suda ", Philoxenus composed twenty-four dithyrambs and a Galatea, written to avenge himself upon Dionysius, who was wholly or partially blind of one eye.
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Likewise, the separate " Dithyrambs of Dionysus " was written in autumn 1888, and printed with the full volume in 1892, as the corollaries of Zarathustra's " abundance ".
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The Danaids " have misled Fabricius and others into the supposition that Melanippides was a tragic poet, a mistake which has been made with respect to the titles of the dithyrambs of other poets.
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This cult's association with iambus seems to be indicated etymologically by the poetic form associated with Dionysus, the dithyramb, a term which appears to include the same root as " iambus ".
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The enormity of sin, the charm of virtue, the torture of an evil conscience, the sweetness of a God-fearing life alternate with heaven and hell as the themes of his majestic dithyramb.
