Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space - Couverture souple

Calame, Claude

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ISBN 10 : 067402124X ISBN 13 : 9780674021242

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Hesiod's history of humanity was intended to establish justice in the modern city; Bacchylides sang the celebration of the Athenian hero Theseus in a present-day cultic and ideological framework; the city of Cyrene used the heroic act of its founding to reaffirm its civic identity; and the Greeks embossed poetic texts on leaves of gold to ensure the ritual passage of the dead to a blessed afterlife. Explicating these examples, Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.

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À propos de l'auteur

Claude Calame is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 067402124X
• ISBN 13: 9780674021242
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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