Notes for forthcoming entry on repetition:

Repeat and Repetition

  • Ἐπαναπολέω (repeat yet again)
  • Ἐπαναπόλησις (repetition)
  • Ἐπαναπορεύομαι (return)
  • Ἀναλαμβάνω (take up again, resume, in narrative or argument; recollect in mind/memory) … spatializing memory...to walk through?
    • In Plato’s Phaedo: “I am reviewing this position a number of times on purpose so we don’t miss anything [...]”
    • In Lucian’s Saturnalia: [Cronos] “I take over the sovereignty again to remind mankind what life was like under me [...]”
  • Ἐπαναλαμβάνω (take up again, resume, repeat; revise, correct, undertake)
    • As ἐπαναλαμβάνων, in Plato’s Phaedrus: [Socrates] “I know very well that when listening to Lysias he did not hear once only, but often urged him to repeat; and he gladly obeyed.”
    • Επανδιπλαζε, in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound: [Prometheus, speaking to the Chorus about Io] “If any of this is obscure and hard to understand, please ask again and you will learn it more clearly. I have ample leisure—more than I want.”
  • Ἀναπολέω (poetic: turn up the ground again, therefore repeat)
    • Ἀναπόλησις (repetition). In Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: “An unphilosophical but none the less an effective help to the contemning of death is to tell over the names of those who have clung long and tenaciously to life. How are they better off than those who were cut off before their time?”
    • Ἀναπολητέον (one must recall to mind)
  • Ραψωδών (recite)(Rhapsodize)
    • Ῥαψῳδέω (recite)
      • Ῥαψῳδία (repetition of epic poetry)
      • Ῥαψῳδός (reciter of poetry)
        • Famous conversation in Plato’s Ion about the Rhapsodist’s art.  
        • Oedipus refers to the Sphynx as a “versifying hound”
  • Ὑμνέω (to sing of; commemorate; tell of over and over again) (Hymn)
    • Ὑμνήσεις, in Sophocles’ Electra: “If you do not leave off these lamentations, they plan to send you to where you shall no longer see the light of the sun, but while still alive in a dungeon, outside this country, you shall bewail your troubles.”
  • Θρυλέω (babble, repeat over and over; related to “common talk”)
  • Διήγησις (narration, narrative)...is the idea that to narrate is necessarily to repeat something?