CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: THEIR MORPHOLOGY, RELIGIOUS ROLE, AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

CALAME, Claude, Derek Collins (Trans.), Janice Orion (Trans.)

ISBN 10: 082263063X / ISBN 13: 9780822630630

Edité par Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 1997

A propos de cet article

8vo. pp xii, 282. Illustrated covers lettered in white. Originally published in French as 'Les Choeurs de Jeunes Filles en Grèce Archaique' in 1977.ISBN: 082263063X Very good, with some light shelfwear along bottom edge.

N° de réf. du vendeur C63366

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: THEIR MORPHOLOGY, RELIGIOUS ROLE, AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 082263063X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780822630630
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.