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

Author:   Barbara Kowalzig (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199219964


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece


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Author:   Barbara Kowalzig (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.897kg
ISBN:  

9780199219964


ISBN 10:   0199219966
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prelude to the khoros 1: Introduction 2: Dancing on Delos 3: New Tunes in Musical Argos: Mapping out the Argolid in Cultic Song 4: Locality and Panhellenism: Aiginetan Myth and Delphic Ritual 5: Returning to the Beginning: Insular Identity on Fifth-Century Rhodes 6: Aetiology Overseas: From Epic to Ethnic Identity in Megale Hellas 7: Who were the Boiotians? Myths of Migration in Ritual Epilogue

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Kowalzig leaves archaic Greece a richer and even more interesting place than she found it, and this book will make us all more suspicious and more attentive readers and tourists. This is a significant achievement. Richard Hunter, The Anglo-Hellenic Review ...a fascinating and ground-breaking study of the relationships between myth and ritual in Greek religious practices... Brad Eden Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ...a remarkable attempt to reconstruct Greek history of the archaic and classical periods though choral performance...the book is a monument to the possibility and the desirability of understanding Greek choral performance historically and Greek history as influenced by choral performance. Richard Seaford Bryn Mawr Classical Review Anyone with an interest in Greek religion or choral poetry will have to consult this study. Its richness lies in its cumulative detail and its bringing together of literatry, historical, anthropological and archeological evidence to contextualize the dynamics of cultic performance throughout the Greek world. Jenny Strauss Clay Religious Studies Review


Kowalzig leaves archaic Greece a richer and even more interesting place than she found it, and this book will make us all more suspicious and more attentive readers and tourists. This is a significant achievement. Richard Hunter, The Anglo-Hellenic Review ...a fascinating and ground-breaking study of the relationships between myth and ritual in Greek religious practices... Brad Eden Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ...a remarkable attempt to reconstruct Greek history of the archaic and classical periods though choral performance...the book is a monument to the possibility and the desirability of understanding Greek choral performance historically and Greek history as influenced by choral performance. Richard Seaford Bryn Mawr Classical Review Anyone with an interest in Greek religion or choral poetry will have to consult this study. Its richness lies in its cumulative detail and its bringing together of literatry, historical, anthropological and archeological evidence to contextualize the dynamics of cultic performance throughout the Greek world. Jenny Strauss Clay Religious Studies Review


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Barbara Kowalzig is Leverhulme Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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