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Dithyramb in Context

Author : Barbara Kowalzig,Peter Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199574681

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Dithyramb in Context by Barbara Kowalzig,Peter Wilson Pdf

The editors look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, history and politics.

Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

Author : Esther Eidinow,Julia Kindt,Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107153479

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Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion by Esther Eidinow,Julia Kindt,Robin Osborne Pdf

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Author : Carolyn Laferrière
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009315944

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Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Carolyn Laferrière Pdf

This book examines representations of divine music to argue that visual arts could communicate the sound of divine music being depicted.

Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus

Author : Anna Uhlig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108481830

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Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus by Anna Uhlig Pdf

Argues that the songs of Pindar and Aeschylus share a "theatrical" spirit that illuminates choral performance in Classical Greece.

Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature

Author : Andreas Serafim,Sophia Papaioannou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111338675

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Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature by Andreas Serafim,Sophia Papaioannou Pdf

The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Latin literature: nonverbal behaviour, i.e., vocalics, kinesics, proxemics, haptics, and chronemics. The individual chapters explore texts from Homer to the 4th century AD to discuss aspects of nonverbal behaviour and how these are linked to, reflect upon, and are informed by general cultural frameworks in ancient Greece and Rome. Material sources are also examined to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the texts.

Choral Tragedy

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316516256

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Choral Tragedy by Claude Calame Pdf

Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.

Reconstructing Satyr Drama

Author : Andreas Antonopoulos,Menelaos Christopoulos,George William Mallory Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110725230

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Reconstructing Satyr Drama by Andreas Antonopoulos,Menelaos Christopoulos,George William Mallory Harrison Pdf

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

The World Underfoot

Author : Hallie M. Franks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190863173

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In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation--was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event--a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.

Textual Events

Author : Felix Budelmann,Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192528384

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Textual Events by Felix Budelmann,Tom Phillips Pdf

Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts to illuminate poetic effects that cannot be captured in functional terms alone. Employing a range of interpretative methods, it explores the idea of lyric performances as 'textual events'. Some chapters investigate the pragmatic relationship between real performance contexts and imaginative settings, while others consider how lyric poems position themselves in relation to earlier texts and textual traditions, or discuss the distinctive encounters lyric poems create between listeners, authors, and performers. Individual lyric texts and authors, such as Sappho, Alcaeus, and Pindar, are analysed in detail, alongside treatments of the relationship between lyric and the Homeric Hymns. Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic in the study of Greek lyric and beyond, Textual Events aims to re-examine the relationship between the poems' formal features and their historical contexts. Lyric poems are a type of socio-political discourse, but they are also objects of attention in themselves. They enable reflection on social and ritual practices as much as they are embedded within in them, but as well as expressing cultural norms, lyric challenges listeners to think about and experience the world afresh.

Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus

Author : Sofia Carvalho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715880

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Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus by Sofia Carvalho Pdf

The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetic production in the Greek West. This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry – a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. This comprehensive survey of Stesichorus’ treatment of myth discusses his engagement with Homer and Hesiod, his powerful and often moving means of characterisation, his subtle treatment of narrative, and his elaboration of emotional episodes unprecedented in archaic Greek lyric poetry. All Greek is translated, making the book accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the great poets of archaic Greece, whose work had such an impact on the later genre of tragedy.

The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789004414525

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The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext by Anonim Pdf

In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, twenty-one international scholars discuss the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) from the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity

Author : Emily Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154872

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity by Emily Wilson Pdf

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Euphrosyne

Author : Peter Burian,Jenny Strauss Clay,Gregson Davis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110604597

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Euphrosyne by Peter Burian,Jenny Strauss Clay,Gregson Davis Pdf

This book collects essays and other contributions by colleagues, students, and friends of the late Diskin Clay, reflecting the unusually broad range of his interests. Clay’s work in ancient philosophy, and particularly in Epicurus and Epicureanism and in Plato, is reflected chapters on Epicurean concerns by André Laks, David Sedley and Martin Ferguson Smith, as well as Jed Atkins on Lucretius and Leo Strauss; Michael Erler contributes a chapter on Plato. James Lesher discusses Xenophanes and Sophocles, and Aryeh Kosman contributes a jeu d’esprit on the obscure Pythagorean Ameinias. Greek cultural history finds multidisciplinary treatment in Rebecca Sinos’s study of Archilochus’ Heros and the Parian Relief, Frank Romer’s mythographic essay on Aphrodite’s origins and archaic mythopoieia more generally, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou’s explication of Callimachus’s kenning of Mt. Athos as "ox-piercing spit of your mother Arsinoe." More purely literary interests are pursued in chapters on ancient Greek (Joseph Russo on Homer, Dirk Obbink on Sappho), Latin (Jenny Strauss Clay and Gregson Davis on Horace), and post-classical poetry (Helen Hadzichronoglou on Cavafy, John Miller on Robert Pinsky and Ovid). Peter Burian contributes an essay on the possibility and impossibility of translating Aeschylus. In addition to these essays, two original poems (Rosanna Warren and Jeffrey Carson) and two pairs of translations (from Horace by Davis and from Foscolo by Burian) recognize Clay’s own activity as poet and translator. The volume begins with an Introduction discussing Clay’s life and work, and concludes with a bibliography of Clay’s publications.

Choreonarratives

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004462632

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Choreonarratives by Anonim Pdf

Choreonarratives, a collection of essays by classicists, dance scholars, and dance practitioners, explores the uses of dance as a narrative medium. Case studies from Greek and Roman antiquity illustrate how dance contributed to narrative repertoires in their multimodal manifestations, while discussions of modern and contemporary dance shed light on practices, discourses, and ancient legacies regarding the art of dancing stories. Benefitting from the crossover of different disciplinary, historical, and artistic perspectives, the volume looks beyond current narratological trends and investigates the manifold ways in which dance can acquire meaning, disclose storyworlds ranging from myths to individual life-stories, elicit the narratees’ responses, and generate powerful narratives of its own. Together, the eclectic approaches of Choreonarratives rethink dance’s capacity to tell, enrich, and inspire stories. Contributors are Sophie M. Bocksberger, Iris J. Bührle, Marie-Louise Crawley, Samuel N. Dorf, Karin Fenböck, Susan L. Foster, Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Sarah Olsen, Lucia Ruprecht, Karin Schlapbach, Danuta Shanzer, Christina Thurner, Yana Zarifi-Sistovari, Bernhard Zimmermann

Understanding Greek Religion

Author : Jennifer Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317296744

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Understanding Greek Religion by Jennifer Larson Pdf

Understanding Greek Religion is one of the first attempts to fully examine any religion from a cognitivist perspective, applying methods and findings from the cognitive science of religion to the ancient Greek world. In this book, Jennifer Larson shows that many of the fundamentals of Greek religion, such as anthropomorphic gods, divinatory procedures, purity beliefs, reciprocity, and sympathetic magic arise naturally as by-products of normal human cognition. Drawing on evidence from across the ancient Greek world, Larson provides detailed coverage of Greek theology and local pantheons, rituals including processions, animal sacrifice and choral dance, and afterlife beliefs as they were expressed through hero worship and mystery cults. Eighteen in-depth essays illustrate the theoretical discussion with primary sources and include case studies of key cult inscriptions from Kyrene, Kos, and Miletos. This volume features maps, tables, and over twenty images to support and expand on the text, and will provide conceptual tools for understanding the actions and beliefs that constitute a religion. Additionally, Larson offers the first detailed discussion of cognition and memory in the transmission of Greek religious beliefs and rituals, as well as a glossary of terms and a bibliographical essay on the cognitive science of religion. Understanding Greek Religion is an essential resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of Greek culture and ancient Mediterranean religions.