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Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination

By Ewen Bowie , Lucia Athanassaki

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
3110254018, 9783110254013
ISSN
1868-4785
Google Books ID
UJGNpDgOqYwC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4348455 bytes)
Series
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 10
Pages
viii+562\571
Topic
Literature
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-04-14 19:14:01

Description

This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. It explores how choruses presented themselves; individuals´ and communities´ roles in funding performances and securing the circulation of texts; how performances continued inside and outside family and city, whether chorally or in symposia; and how such performances contributed to transmission of the poems´ texts until they were collected by Hellenistic scholars.

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