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How climate change affects nature The ways in which climate change will impact on wildlife are quite complex and all of them interact. Nestboxes Find out how to provide, or make, nestboxes for birds in your garden. C locate. D share. Ptarmigan keep warm in the winter by. A huddling together on the ground with other birds. B building nests in trees.
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Birds: With Introduction and Commentary. Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. Tragedy and Athenian Religion. Taplin, Oliver, ed. Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Thiercy, Pascal, and Manu, Michel, eds.
West, M. Ancient Greek Music. Wilson, Peter. Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne 58— Zimmermann, Bernhard. I would especially like to thank Mark Griffith for his help with this essay.
I am also indebted to D. Mastronarde and R. Martin for two helpful courses in Aristophanes, and to all those at Berkeley who commented on this paper. See Herington , Kugelmeier Some scholars now consider it a misnomer to speak of lyric in Athenian drama, but when looking for reflections of archaic lyric songs and occasions in drama, the term remains meaningful despite the fact that dramatic songs were accompanied by the aulos. Silk My approach to musical design is a slightly complicated one: I assume, unlike Bernhard Zimmermann see n10 below , that the lyrics of Birds are somewhat independent from the surrounding dialogue and interact more with one another and with lyric traditions than with the prosaic language and action of the rest of the play.
For a discussion of metrical design, see Parker See Fraenkel — on parabasis odes and Bremer The meter of the added phrase is the typically comic ithyphallic. Some other lyric reflections discussed by Kugelmeier : PMG and Acharnians — reflect a similar tradition; Pindar fr. On the ethopoietic approach see Moutsopoulos — McEvilley notes the greater proportion of lyrics not found in the typical comic song positions such as the parodos, parabasis, etc.
Birds is the last attested comedy of Aristophanes that mentions or parodies the compositions of Pindar. Several of the chapters in Dobrov portray Peisetairos as a sophist at odds with Athenian democratic norms; Nan Dunbar has argued that some of these readings depend on a scrutiny of the play available more to scholars than the Athenian audience; see Dunbar The spectators are encouraged to identify themselves with Peisetairos and to side with him against his opponents throughout the play, and at the end he is triumphantly successful.
A play about music need not be merely an escapist fantasy on that account. Zimmermann — , in his important analysis of song types, focuses on the relationship between song and plot in a way that can reduce song to a function of the plot. But the songs can also be seen as semi-independent units more in relation to each other and to other traditions than to the immediately surrounding action.
As for what is sung, we call that lyric by opposition to what is recited. Thus the opposition of song and poetry in tragedy not only recapitulates diachronically an earlier opposition of SONG and speech, it also imitates synchronically the actual opposition of song and speech in real life. Philocleon is, on the other hand, an accomplished singer, storyteller, and revelrous trouble-maker, whatever his limitations as an aristocratic symposiast.
A fragment of Farmers fr. Kathleen Freeman. See Xenophanes 1. See Dunbar , and in general, for discussion and illustrations, Sifakis Aristophanes later wrote a play called Storks.
Magnes had already written a play called Birds scholium on Knights , and we hear of another in the Suda K Kantharos later wrote a Nightingales. But useful as such a connection between birds, choruses, and poets would be for reading Birds , there is no evidence for these themes being brought together in early Old Comedy so far as I know.
See Dunbar — The juxtaposition of the lyrical birds 3—5 of the chorus penelops , alkuon , and keirulos is suggestive, but they only make up one-eighth of the twenty-four-person chorus. Birds in edible guise appear frequently in comedy Acharnians ; Clouds ; Peace , For quail-fights and quail-tapping, cf.
The aggressive aspects of birds are discussed by Green — Green also argues for a uniform chorus resembling the ithyphallic rooster-men on the vase. The vase may be connected to the production, but it is hard to believe it actually represents the chorus. Harrison — remains a stimulating discussion of birds in Greek life.
See also Forbes Irving , especially 96— on bird metamorphoses. The meter of the following fragment of Amphiaraus fr. Take, for example, the reference to Athens as Kranaoi Admittedly, much of the archaic language is in the first place paratragic, as is Tereus himself Sophocles had recently staged a Tereus , but paratragedy has an added force in the quasi-archaic world of Birds. The play may contain archaizing music as well, as I will try to show.
Many cultures imitate birds, and this need not exclude serious content. For a description of a bird-song cycle that fuses bird mimesis, emergence, and home-finding myth and comedy in California among the Cahuilla a tribe of the San Joaquin valley in and around Palm Springs , see Apodaca See also Felds on the Kaluli of New Guinea and their bird mimesis. Compare also Calame on Alcman fr. Why does Alcman have his young dancers compare themselves to birds? Birds contains no such theme of earthly subordination.
The comparison with Alcman thus must also be made a contrast. Lyric poetry may have freed itself of any obvious paedogogical responsibilities in this play.
The fact that lines — probably echo Alcman among a covey of other birds and meters only drives this difference home.
The metrical difference is worth noting: Aristophanes has lightened his meter, including only two dactylic metra per line instead of the three of the original poem, if this is an allusion to the original poem. Nilsson —, — In Homer, the gods sometimes change themselves into birds, but never into other animals: Odyssey i , iii , xxii ; Iliad V , VII One should not speculate that Aristophanes is unconsciously expressing vestiges of belief, but that he and his audience might have encountered the same imagery in what was to them already archaic art and felt a similar puzzlement to ours, without, perhaps, the same comfortable distance.
For a more recent discussion of bird epiphany in ancestor cult, and some parallel evidence concerning the Ugaritic and Phoenician marzeah , see Carter — Perkell —5, though she concludes this quality is ultimately delusive. References in n3 above. Representing birds in this and other passages leads to some striking metrical features.
Torrents of short syllables can give the impression of metrical chaos. Admittedly, this progression does not account for all the lyric of the play, but includes nearly all the high points. For the problems involved in discussing the structure of a whole play, see Parker The lines of early plays showing the convention of heralding the chorus raise audience expectations, sometimes in lyrical language: Wasps —, Knights —, Acharnians —, Peace — These passages show the transition from speech to song to be both deliberate and exciting.
Clouds — and Assembly Women — are two other examples, as well as Knights ff. So the parabasis does seem more inwardly referential than most.
Also Sappho 1. O mihi nuntii beati. Phrynichus, unlike the strictly lyric poets, was native to Athens, and this makes him a natural predecessor. In no other Aristophanic reference does he so clearly serve as a poetic model. The surviving, mostly Aristophanean, reminiscences of Phrynichus form a fascinating composite. On the day that you were born The angels got together And decided to create a dream come true So they sprinkled moondust in your hair of gold And starlight in your eyes of blue.
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