The rhapsodes were welcome guests at popular festivals, where they exercised their art in mutual emulation, or ultimately recited parts, perhaps the whole, of longer poems.
Difference of opinion among modern critics as to its genuineness 124 Rhapsodes as a class in Greece.
Side-note: The popularity of the Rhapsodes was chiefly derived from their recitation.
Euthydemus, in one of the Xenophontic conversations with Sokrates, and Antisthenes in the Xenophontic Symposion, are made to declare that the rhapsodes as a class were extremely silly.
Steinhart cites this judgment about the rhapsodes as if it had been pronounced by the Xenophontic Sokrates himself, which is not the fact (Steinhart, Einleitung p.
Besides which the celebrated ordinance of Solon respecting the rhapsodes at the Panathenaia obliges us to infer the existence of written manuscripts of Homer previous to 550 B.
The men who came together attracted by the sweet tones of the rhapsodes soon discovered the badness of the poems and laughed them down.
He spared no expense in engaging the best rhapsodes of the day, and sent them to recite his verses at Olympia.
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