Mapping CICADAS at the Ancient Agora of Athens

31 Pages·2013·1.81 MB·English

by  Αναστασία Γεωργάκη

Mapping CICADAS at the Ancient Agora of Athens:
from myth to reality

Anastasia Georgaki, Music Department,
University of Athens, Greece
[email protected]
Overview

Greek Tettigology in Poetry and literature (from Ancient to Modern
Greece)
Allegoric matters on cicada songs
Acoustic communication of cicada
The cicada Chorus and its Stochastic laws (Xenakis, Mache,etc.)

ICADA at the ancient agora
(cid:1)  (exploring the soundclouds, Creating Stochastic events,)
(cid:1)  Design of a sound installation
(cid:1)  Mapping

CICADA AT ANCIENT AGORA
Eos and Tithonos (a video on the dawn at ancient agora)
download from
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3cgfcynky19gbk/Tzitzikia.mpg
(cid:1)  ON GREEK TETTIGOLOGY
Greek Tettigology
(cid:1)  Homer ((cid:3)(cid:8)(cid:10)(cid:17)(cid:4)(cid:8)(cid:18)(cid:18)(cid:6) (cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:4)(cid:6)), lilly-like voice
(cid:1)  Hesiodos
(cid:1)  Aesope (working ant, lazy cicada)
(cid:1)  Tithonus and Eos (Myth)
(cid:1)  Eunomos (Musician)
(cid:1)  Anacreon (Poet)
(cid:1)  Plato (Plato Phdr. 259b5-259d8
(cid:1)  (cid:1)ristote (Historia Animalia)

(cid:1)  Modern Greek Poets (Elytis, Seferis, Ritsos, etc.)
TETTI(cid:5) ((cid:1)(cid:14)(cid:6)(cid:11)(cid:17)(cid:1)(cid:21)(cid:14) 570B.C.)

(cid:4)(cid:6)(cid:11)(cid:6)(cid:17)(cid:2)(cid:9)(cid:16)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:14) (cid:18)(cid:8), (cid:19)(cid:1)(cid:19)(cid:19)(cid:10)(cid:15),
ὅτε (cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:14)(cid:7)(cid:17)(cid:1)(cid:21)(cid:14) ἐπ᾽ ἄκρων
ὀλίγην (cid:7)(cid:17)(cid:4)(cid:18)(cid:16)(cid:14) π(cid:8)π(cid:21)(cid:11)(cid:5)(cid:3)
βασιλεὺς ὅπ(cid:21)(cid:3) ἀείδειv
Allegories on Cicada
songs
(cid:1)  1. Aesthetic value (resurrection, immortality)
(cid:1)  2. Types of call (echemes, phrases, ostinato, chorus,
etc.)
(cid:1)  3. Distribution of cicadas song (social meanings)
(cid:1)  4. Interaction (acoustic communication)
Cicada (Cicada plebeia)
(cid:1)  Cicada ((cid:19)(cid:1)(cid:19)(cid:19)(cid:10)(cid:15)/ téttix Cicada plebeia)

Typical song or noise (ἠχεῖν/ (cid:1)(cid:1)cheîn, Hes. Op. 583;
Sappho Fr. 89 D.; Anth. Pal. 7,196 and 201) produced
by rubbing the wings against the opercula (cf. Aristot.
Hist. an. 4,9,535b 7-9) is often the only sound on a hot
summer day when all other animals are silent (e.g.,
Hes. Sc. 396; Aristoph. Av. 1095; Theoc. 5,110 and
7,139; Verg. Ecl. 2,13; G.…