Cultural poetics in Archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics / edited by Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dougherty, Carol, editor.

Kurke, Leslie, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a conference held at Wellesley in 1990. It aims to represent a critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece; 3 The Archaeology of Ancestors; 4 Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece; 5 Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes; 6 The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom; 7 The Economy of Kudos; 8 Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes; 9 It's Murder to Found a Colony; 10 Thucydides' Solonian Reflections; 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.E.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c 1993.

Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770446-8

1-280-53012-X

0-19-535244-0

0-585-31332-6

OCLC:

191943614