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Choruses of young women in ancient Greece : their morphology, religious role, and social function

By Claude Calame; Derek Collins; Janice Orion

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
1997
ISBN
0822630621, 9780822630623, 082263063X, 9780822630630
Language
english
Format
DOCX
Filesize
774 kB (792262 bytes)
Series
Greek studies
Pages
xii, 282 p. ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2013-01-24 20:00:00

Description

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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