Gentili Bruno. Lomiento Liana. Metrics and rhythmics. History of poetic forms in ancient Greece

Translated by E. Christian Kopff – Pisa. Roma : Fabrizio Serra editore, 2008 – (Studi di metrica classica, 12) – 350 p. – ISBN 978-88-6227-059-5.Contents: Foreword to the English Translation by E. Christian Kopff. Preface to Italian Edition (2003) by Bruno Gentili and Liana Lomiento. Metrical Abbreviations. Bibliography of Short Titles and Editions Cited in the Text. Historical rethinking: Metrics, Rhythmics and Music. Prosody. Metrical and Rhythmical Terminology and Diacritical Signs: Metrical and Rhythmical Terminology. Diacritical Signs. Structures of Versification. Lyric Sections in Tragedy. Lyric Sections in Comedy. Modes of Performances: Dancing and Musical Instruments. Sung Poetry: Dactyls. Anapaests. Trochees. Iambs: Iambs in Mixed Structures. Choriambs. Glyconic Meters. Ionic Meters: Ionics a maiore. Ionics a minore. Polyschematist Structures. Κατ’ἐνόπλιον Meters: Κατ’ἐνόπλιον-epitrites. Cretics, Paeons, Bacchei, Palimbacchei: Cretics and Paeons. Bacchei. Palimbacchei. Dochmii. Recited Poetry and Recitative: Iambic Trimeter, Iambic Tetrameter: The Trimeter of the Ionic Iambographers. The Trimeter of Attic Tragedy. The Trimeter of Satyr Play. The Trimeter of Attic Comedy. Choliambics. Iambic Tetrameters Acatalectic and Catalectic. Trochaic Tetrameter: The Scazon and Ischiorrhogic Tetrameter Catalectic. The Dactylic Hexameter and the Elegiac: Homeric Hexameter. The Post-Homeric Hexameter (Cyclic and Elegiac). The Alexarldrian and Post-Alexandrian Hexameter. Observations on the Origin of the Hexameter. Elegiac Verse. Bibliography. Index of Subjects. Index of Proper Names. Index of Cited Passages.