Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rhapsodist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.), rare A rhapsodist.
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- noun One who performs the poetry of a poet for an audience; not a writer of poetry: Socrates: And do the Epidaurians have contests of rhapsodes at the festival? (Plato's Ion)
- noun The interpreter of a poem: Socrates: Then you rhapsodists are the interpreters of the poets? (Plato's Ion)
- noun A rhapsodist.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Socrates discusses with the title character the question of whether the rhapsode, a professional performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Socrates discusses with the title character the question of whether the rhapsode, a professional performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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I do have some sympathy with the romance of Longinus's heroic ideal though, his notion of the rhapsode as raptor.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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I do have some sympathy with the romance of Longinus's heroic ideal though, his notion of the rhapsode as raptor.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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At the Venice Biennale he encounters "jet-lagged, hectic miens," while El Greco is called "a pictorial rhapsode of militant piety."
An Eye on the Tremors Schwartz, Sanford 2009
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Homer analogously draws poetic power from his Muse and attracts a rhapsode by means of borrowed power.
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
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As a rhapsode Ion travels from one Greek city to another reciting and explicating episodes from Homer.
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
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He was a travelling rhapsode who criticised the stories about the gods told by the poets, and he defended a novel conception of the divine nature.
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles.
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In Ion's case Socrates specifies that the expertise for a rhapsode includes the ability to interpret poetry (530c).
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
fbharjo commented on the word rhapsode
rap-sode - a stitcher rhaptein Greek:to sew or stitch
April 7, 2011
qms commented on the word rhapsode
Poor thespians bear a heavy load
And struggle to rent an abode.
If label's a factor
Deny you're an actor
And write down your work as "raphsode."
August 18, 2014