Dithyramb

The dithyramb (Greek διθύραμβος DITHYRAMBOS ) was a genus of ancient Greek choral lyric, a hymn in honor of the god Dionysus, performed as part of the Dionysia, alternating between singing choir and pre Inger.

As the cult of Dionysus himself could have been non-Greek origin, and the dithyramb. In Greece, he is first attested in Archilochus in the 7th century BC, when perfecter of dithyramb applies Arion of Lesbos. Probably developed in the 6th century BC from the dithyramb, the Greek tragedy. Even after their formation persisted the dithyramb, such as Pindar or Bacchylides.

Of these, passionately excited, stormy, ecstatic hymns to Dionysus ( god of ecstasy, the wine, the transformation ), the figurative meaning of the word " dithyrambic " within the meaning of passes " enthusiastically, wildly enthusiastic " from.

The most significant of modern times Dithyramben wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. The Dionysian dithyramb are his last, the pressure designated by him work. Three of the nine songs were released in the fourth book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.