Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions
Heftet /
1996
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780822630630
Publisert
1996-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
449 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352
Biographical note
Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.
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Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs sung by young women in ancient Greece, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood.
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Imaginative, groundbreaking and scrupulously documented, Claude Calame's masterful treatment of female choruses in Greek society is widely recognized as one of the most fundamental books ever written on archaic lyric poetry and musical culture. In its revised form it will reach an even wider audience and continue to be an indispensable research tool for students of Greek poetics, myth, and religion.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780822630630
Publisert
1996-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
449 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352