Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece

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A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, helped to effect social and political change in their own time. Cover Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Conventions and Abbreviations Prelude to the khoros 1. Introduction 1. Myth and Ritual 2. Aetiology 3. Ritual 4. The Power of Performance 2. Dancing on Delos: (omitted) between Myth, Ritual, and theoria 1. Myth and Ritual, Time and Space: Forging Ties in Choral Song 2. Islands and Ionians between Compliance and Defiance in the Delian League 3. The Imperial khoros in the 420s BC 4. Digging up the Theoric Past 3. New Tunes in Musical Argos: Mapping out the Argolid in Cultic Song 1. Apollo Pythaieus at Asine and Ethnic Integration in the Eastern Argolid 2. Six Synoikizing Songs and the Social Transformation of the Argive Plain 4. Locality and Panhellenism: Aiginetan Myth and Delphic Ritual 1. Hellenicity and the Delphic Theoxenia 2. Zeus Hellanios of Aigina: Greekness and ‘Good Crop’ 3. Joining in the Pan-Greek khoros 5. Returning to the Beginning: Towards Insular Identity on Fifth-Century Rhodes 1. Athena’s (omitted) 2. Two Stories of Origin: Tlepolemos and Helios 3. A New Patron for the Island 4. Turning into a khoros of Heliadai 6. Aetiology Overseas: from Epic to Ethnic Identity in Megale Hellas 1. Dancing in Artemis’ Sacred Herd 2. Artemis twice between Agrotera and Hemera 3. Towards Epic Identity in Southern Italy 4. Turning Akhaian in Song 7. Who were the Boiotians? Myths of Migration in Ritual 1. (omitted), Doves, and Dreifuβ at Dodona 2. Becoming Boiotian in the koinon Epilogue Bibliography Indices 1. Index Locorum A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T V X 2. Subject Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W X Z