rhapsode
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As a rhapsode Ion travels from one Greek city to another reciting and explicating episodes from Homer.
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- A rhapsodist. I venture to think that the rhapsodes incurred the displeasure of Kleisthenês by reciting, not the Homeric Iliad, but the Homeric Thebais and Epigoni. Grote, Hist. Greece, i. 21, note.
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As a rhapsode Ion travels from one Greek city to another reciting and explicating episodes from Homer.
— Plato's Aesthetics -
In Ion's case Socrates specifies that the expertise for a rhapsode includes the ability to interpret poetry (530c).
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Homer analogously draws poetic power from his Muse and attracts a rhapsode by means of borrowed power.
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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.
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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.
— Jon Aquino's Mental Garden
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- = French rapsode, rhapsode = Spanish rapsoda = Italian rapsodo, from Greek
ῤαψῳδός , a writer of epic poetry, a bard who recites poetry, literally ‘one who strings or joins songs together,’ fromῤάπτειν (ῤαψ -), stitch together, fasten together, +ῳδή , song, ode: see ode.