Archaic and classical choral song : performance, politics and dissemination

This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. It explores how choruses presented themselves; individuals? and commu...

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Altri autori: Athanassaki, Lucia, 1957- (Direttore editoriale), Bowie, Ewen, 1940- (Direttore editoriale)
Natura: Livre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter 2011.
Berlin ; Boston :
Serie:Trends in Classics - Supplementary volumes volume 10
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Edition sous un autre format:• Archaic and classical choral song, performance, politics and dissemination, edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Ewen Bowie, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2011, 1 vol. (VIII-562 p.), Trends in classics, 978-3-11-025401-3
Sommario:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Reflections of choral song in early hexameter poetry
  • Alcman's first Partheneion and the song the Sirens sang
  • Cyberchorus: Pindar's ´and the aura of the artificial
  • Enunciative fiction and poetic performance. Choral voices in Bacchylides' epinicians
  • Eros and praise in early Greek lyric
  • The parrhesia of young female choruses in Ancient Greece
  • A second look at the poetics of re-enactment in Ode 13 of Bacchylides
  • The Ceians and their choral lyric: Athenian, epichoric and pan-Hellenic perspectives
  • Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar's Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo
  • Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus
  • Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar's intersecting audiences
  • Olympians 1-3: A song cycle?
  • The dissemination of Pindar's non-epinician choral lyric
  • Choral self-awareness: on the introductory anapaests of Aeschylus' Supplices
  • Epinician and tragic Worlds: the case of Sophocles' Trachiniae
  • Alcman at the end of Aristophanes' Lysistrata: ritual interchorality
  • Alcman: from Laconia to Alexandria
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index