Lekythion

Lekythion (Greek: vial ) is the name for a catalectic trochaic dimeter after the pattern - UxU.

The name derives from a Aristophanes Quote ( The Frogs 1208 ff.) Here several times the rate ληκυθιον απωλεσεν is ( he lost the vial ) repeatedly, the always available as part of the trimeters behind the main turning point in the conversation between Aeschylus and Euripides. Thus, the formal smoothness that allows the insertion of the same old formula is parodied. Due to the text relationship sometimes also the name for the Euripideum Lekythion was used. The Lekythion can be found for example in Alcman and Euripides; in the Asynarteten of Archilochus it appears. Here it is behind a Hemiepes.

  • Metrical foot / meter
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