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grbs-15785	Fernández-Delgado, José-Antonio; Pordomingo, Francisca	Musical Ekphrasis and Diegema in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe	2016	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4713	136	50	THAT MUSIC plays a key role in Daphnis and Chloe has been noted in scholarship on the novel, and it could not be otherwise if we take into account the enormous influence that the genre of bucolic poetry had in its shaping.1 Topics have included the frequent references to music in the work—performances, contests, accompaniment to the daily tasks of the idealized shepherds who are the main characters, explanations of the origins and making of pastoral musical instruments through various etiological legends, and the symbolic and structural function of music in the couple’s process of falling in love.2 While it is true that the very musicality of Longus’ style has 1 E. Vaccarello, “L’eredità della poesia bucolica nel romanzo di Longo,” MC 5 (1935) 307–325; G. Rohde, “Longus und die Bukolik,” RhM 86 (1937) 23–49; M. C. Mittelstadt, “Longus: Daphnis and Chloe and the Pastoral Tradition,” ClMed 27 (1966) 162–177, and “Bucolic-lyric Motifs and Dramatic Narrative in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe,” RhM 113 (1970) 211–227. A couple of versions of this story are in diegemata 4 and 32 in Libanius’ repertoire of progymnasmata,20 which shows that this theme was deeply rooted as a school exercise, 17 A characteristic topic of progymnasmatic ekphrasis: see Gibson, Li- banius’s Progymnasmata 447 ff.	cache/grbs-15785.pdf	txt/grbs-15785.txt