concept

Lyric

Words

Short personal song-verse, or the words of a song. Not ode as a formal praise, and not meter as the beat craft alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Lyric appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad embeds song and lyric performance among the poem’s speech-acts. A named lyric song craft in that epic, not epic as the long form already filed and not ode as a later genre dump alone.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.